Mathematician:Leonard James Rogers
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Mathematician
English mathematician famous for the Rogers-Ramanujan Identities and for proving a special case of Hölder's inequality.
Nationality
English
History
- Born: 30 March 1862, Oxford, England
- Died: 12 Sept 1933, Oxford, England
Theorems and Definitions
- Rogers-Ramanujan Identities (independently of Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan)
- Rogers-Ramanujan Continued Fraction (independently of Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan)
- Rogers Inequality (a special case of Hölder's Inequality for Sums)
Results named for Leonard James Rogers can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for Leonard James Rogers can be found here.
Publications
- 1888: An extension of a certain theorem in inequalities (Messenger Math. Vol. 17: pp. 145 – 150) (in which Hölder's Inequality for Sums is presented)
- 1894: Second memoir on the expansion of certain infinite products (Proc. London Math. Soc. Vol. 25: pp. 318 – 343) (in which Rogers-Ramanujan Identities is presented)
- 1894: Third memoir on the expansion of certain infinite products (Proc. London Math. Soc. Vol. 26: pp. 15 – 32)