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George E. Andrews is a Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University. His contributions include several monographs and over 250 research and popular articles on q-series, special functions, combinatorics and applications. He is considered to be the world's leading expert in the theory of integer partitions. He also 'discovered' the Ramanujan's Lost Notebook. The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (commonly known as Penn State) is a state-related land-grant university based in State College, Pennsylvania (the university uses a University Park, Pennsylvania to differentiate University addresses from those in town), with over 80,000 students at 24 campuses throughout the... In mathematics, a q-series, also sometimes called a q-shifted factorial, is defined as It is usually considered first as a formal power series; it is also an analytic function of q, in the unit disc. ... In mathematics, there is a theory or theories of special functions, particular functions such as the trigonometric functions that have useful or attractive properties, and which occur in different applications often enough to warrant a name and attention of their own. ... Combinatorics is a branch of mathematics that studies collections (usually finite) of objects that satisfy specified criteria. ... In mathematics, a partition of a positive integer n is a way of writing n as a sum of positive integers. ... Ramanujan Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan (Tamil: ஸ்ரீனிவாஸ ஐயங்கார் ராமானுஜன்) (December 22, 1887 – April 26, 1920) was a groundbreaking Indian mathematician. ...


George Andrews is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. President Harding and the National Academy of Sciences at the White House, Washington, DC, April 1921 The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine. ...


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