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Commentary on and Corrections to the First Four Volumes

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An excellent survey article on the Rogers–Ramanujan continued fraction, especially from the viewpoint of modular forms, has been written by W. Duke [128].

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Andrews, G.E., Berndt, B.C. (2018). Commentary on and Corrections to the First Four Volumes. In: Ramanujan's Lost Notebook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77834-1_18

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