Historical Remark on Ramanujan′s Tau Function

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  • Kenneth S. Williams
چکیده

It is shown that Ramanujan could have proved a special case of his conjecture that his tau function is multiplicative without any recourse to modularity results.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The American Mathematical Monthly

دوره 122  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015