George E Andrews is the Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University. He is also President of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for the period of 2009–2011. He is a world pioneer in partitions and q-series and his contributions include more than 250 scientific papers and several books on number theory and the theory of partitions. In 1976 he discovered Ramanujan's Lost Notebook, a finding which changed the shape of modern q-series research.
Besides giving readers access to George Andrews' most important papers, this volume also provides his background commentary and comprehensive assessment of years of research and findings within the field of integer partitions.
Sample Chapter(s)
Chapter 1: The Geometry of Numbers (428 KB)
Contents:
- The Geometry of Numbers
- q-Series
- Partition Identities
- Plane Partitions
- Combinatorics, Fibonacci Numbers, and Computers
- Number Theory
- Surveys
- Education, History, etc
Readership: Graduate students and researchers in number theory, combinatorics and special functions.
"George Andrews has made fundamental contributions to number theory and combinatorics. In the theory of partitions and on the mathematics of Ramanujan, he is a world authority … It is appropriate to have a selection of his papers, as this volume does, which reflects both the depth and the breadth of his contributions. This book, superbly edited by Andrew Sills, would be invaluable as a reference book and a source of ideas for researchers in number theory and combinatorics. "
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