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From Ramanujan to Groups of Rationals: A Personal History of Abstract Multiplicative Functions

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The following furnishes details to a lecture that I gave at the March 17–21, 2016, meeting held in Gainesville, Florida, to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of Krishnaswami Alladi.

In celebration of the sixtieth birthday of Krishnaswami Alladi

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Elliott, P.D.T.A. (2017). From Ramanujan to Groups of Rationals: A Personal History of Abstract Multiplicative Functions. In: Andrews, G., Garvan, F. (eds) Analytic Number Theory, Modular Forms and q-Hypergeometric Series. ALLADI60 2016. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 221. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68376-8_16

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