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The work of Ramanujan has had a wide ranging impact in many branches of mathematics. Among many fields of research influenced by Ramanujan, few are as currently vibratingly active as the area of mock theta functions. In this chapter, we provide a brief and incomplete account of this activity. We have already discussed at the end of Chapter 12 many of the extensive contributions of B. Gordon and R. McIntosh [145–147] jointly and McIntosh [201–205] individually.

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Andrews, G.E., Berndt, B.C. (2018). Recent Work on Mock Theta Functions. In: Ramanujan's Lost Notebook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77834-1_17

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