(2016-12-01) (S. Ramanujan, 1920) The major preoccupation of Ramanujan in his last days.
Three months before he died, Ramanujan coined the term mock theta functions in his last letter to G.H. Hardy (January 1920) ntroducing 17 of them. In his lost notebook (uncovered by George Andrews in 1976) 3 other such functions appear, although not identified as such.