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Remarks on some of Ramanujan's number theoretical discoveries found in his second notebook

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Berndt, B.C. (1985). Remarks on some of Ramanujan's number theoretical discoveries found in his second notebook. In: Alladi, K. (eds) Number Theory. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1122. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0075749

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