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Revisiting Rademacher's Formula for the Partition Function p(n

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We provide a new proof of Rademacher's celebrated exact formula for the partition function. Along the way we present a simple treatment of an integral which is ubiquitous in the theory of nonanalytic automorphic forms.

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Pribitkin, W.D.A. Revisiting Rademacher's Formula for the Partition Function p(n. The Ramanujan Journal 4, 455–467 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009828302300

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