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- ↑ Don Zagier Ramanujan´s Mock Theta Functions and their Applications (d'après Zwegers and Bringmann-Ono), Séminaire Bourbaki, No. 986, 2007
- ↑ Peter Lynch, Timely reminder of a mathematical genius, The Irish Times, Dec 6, 2012.
