Subject: Re: [HM] Who Ramanujan wrote to before Hardy
From: James A. Landau (JJJRLandau@aol.com)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2000 - 10:15:27 EST
In a message dated 3/12/00 11:37:43 AM Eastern Standard Time,
askey@math.wisc.edu writes:
> [Narayana Iyer's] son also mentioned getting the book on Jacobian
> elliptic functions for his father and Ramanu[j]an, from the Madras
> university library.
Every source I have read on Ramanujan says that his only textbook was
G. S. Carr, _Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure Mathematics_
(F. Hodgson, London, 1886).
Is Carr the "book on Jacobian elliptic functions" you mention, or did
Ramanujan actually have at least two advanced mathematical textbooks?
By the way, I found Carr's book is not totally forgotten except in
reference to Ramanujan. Dwight _Tables of Integrals and Other
Mathematical Data, 4th edition_, published in 1961, includes it in the
bibliography.
James A. Landau
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