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Who proved it first?

During Joel Specter’s thesis defense, he started out by remarking that the \(q\)-expansion: \(\displaystyle{f = q \prod_{n=1}^{\infty} (1 – q^n)(1 – q^{23 n}) = \sum a_n q^n}\) is a weight one modular forms of level \(\Gamma_1(23),\) and moreover, for \(p\) … Continue reading

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