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The 1916 memoir of Ramanujan modestly entitled “On certain arithmetic functions” contains a wealth of ideas. Most notable is the study of what is now called Ramanujan’s τ-function. In this chapter, we discuss the basic properties of this function as well as highlight some theorems and conjectures regarding its values.
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Murty, M.R., Murty, V.K. (2013). The Ramanujan τ-Function. In: The Mathematical Legacy of Srinivasa Ramanujan. Springer, India. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-0770-2_2
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