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Note on the Bradley and Ramanujan summation

Author(s): Chu Wenchang
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 124 (1996), 3753-3754.
MSC (1991): Primary 33A30; Secondary 05A19
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Abstract: The hypergeometric series of Bradley and Ramanujan is evaluated by means of the binomial convolutions of Hagen and Rothe, which presents, alternatively, a short proof of the recent result of Bradley about Ramanujan's enigmatic claim.


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Additional Information:

Chu Wenchang
Affiliation: Istituto di Matematica, ``Guido Castelnuovo'', Universit\a`{a} degli Studi di Roma ``La Sapienza'', Roma, Italia
Email: WENCHANG@mat.uniroma1.it

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-96-03525-3
PII: S 0002-9939(96)03525-3
Keywords: Binomial convolution, Hypergeometric series, The Gauss summation theorem
Received by editor(s): January 3, 1995
Received by editor(s) in revised form: May 23, 1995
Additional Notes: The author was partially supported by IAMI (CNR, Milano), 1994
Communicated by: J. Marshall Ash
Copyright of article: Copyright 1996, American Mathematical Society


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