Honoring a Gift from Kumbakonam
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2 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 53, NUMBER 6 T oday was an absolutely glorious day in Madison, Wisconsin. It is Christmas 2005, and everyone in the house is asleep after a long day of enjoying family, opening presents, and eating enormous portions of mashed potatoes and yule log cake. Yet powerful images keep me awake. Thirty-six hours ago I returned from a six-day whirlwind journey to a far-off place. I spent forty hours on airplanes, and I endured fourteen hours in cars dodging bicycles, rickshaws, cows, goats, and masses of people on roads severely damaged by recent flooding. These floods would be blamed1 for at least forty-two deaths. Despite these hardships and bad luck, this adventure exceeded my lofty expectations. I ostensibly travelled to Kumbakonam with the purpose of giving a lecture on mock theta functions and Maass forms at the International Conference on Number Theory and Mathematical Physics at SASTRA University. I could have offered other worthy pretexts: I wanted to see my student Karl Mahlburg give his first plenary lecture. I wanted to applaud my friends Manjul Bhargava and Kannan Soundararajan (he goes by Sound) as they won a prestigious prize. However, my primary reason was personal, not professional. This adventure was a pilgrimage to pay homage to Srinivasa Ramanujan, the Indian legend whose congruences, formulas, and identities have inspired much of my own work. This fulfilled a personal journey, one with an unlikely beginning in 1984.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006