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)
