i agree entirely with nir eyal’s perspective that denying treatment to obese patients is morally wrong. however, the reasons for this belief differ in some ways from eyal’s analysis. in this commentary, i will try to explain the similarities and differences in our perspectives. my primary claim is that the denial of treatment to obese patients is wrong principally because (i) it eschews a whole...

A new polynomial analogue of the Rogers–Ramanujan identities is proven. Here the product-side of the Rogers–Ramanujan identities is replaced by a partial theta sum and the sum-side by a weighted sum over Schur polynomials.