Hypergeometric heritage of W.N. Bailey. With an appendix: Bailey's letters to F. Dyson
Wadim Zudilin·2016-11-27·via math.CO updates on arXiv.org
We review some of W.N. Bailey's work on hypergeometric functions that found solid applications in number theory. The text is complemented by Bailey's letters to Freeman Dyson from the 1940s.