Identities missed by Schur and MacMahon

When/Where:

April 22, 2014, at 1:55pm, in LIT 368

Abstract:

The first portion of the talk will describe a new formulation for the generating function for the partitions in Schur’s 1926 partition theorem (joint work with Kathrin Bringmann and Karl Mahlburg). If there is time, I will describe how MacMahon “just missed” proving the Rogers-Ramanujan identities.