Mathematician:Leonard James Rogers

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 Ramanujan)
 * Rogers-Ramanujan Continued Fraction (independently of Srinivasa Ramanujan)
 * Rogers Transformation
 * Rogers Inequality (a special case of Hölder's Inequality)

Books and Papers

 * 1888: An extension of a certain theorem in inequalities in Messenger of math 17 145-150 (in which Hölder's inequality appears)
 * 1894: Second memoir on the expansion of certain infinite products in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 25, pp 318-343 (in which appear the Rogers-Ramanujan Identities)