Sander P. Zwegers

<h2 id="research">Research</h2>
<p>In 1976, the American mathematician George Andrews found what is nowadays known as the "<a href="/facts/Lost_Notebook/2YUTqSKM">Lost Notebook</a>" of Ramanujan. It contains many remarkable results, including the mysterious <a href="/facts/Mock_theta_functions/QtPMsek1">mock theta functions</a>.
This notebook contains what many specialists regard as Ramanujan’s deepest work. It was Sander Zwegers who, as a PhD student, had groundbreaking ideas how to fit the mock theta functions into a broader context. His 2002 PhD thesis has led to numerous publications and international conferences.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>
</p><p>Zwegers' general area of interest is number theory. More specifically, he studies modular forms and variations thereof, such as Maass forms, mock modular forms, (indefinite) theta functions, and (Maass) Jacobi forms.
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<h2 id="works">Works</h2>
<ul><li>Zwegers, S. P. (2001), "Mock θ-functions and real analytic modular forms", <i>q-series with applications to combinatorics, number theory, and physics (Urbana, IL, 2000)</i>, Contemp. Math., vol. 291, Providence, R.I.: <a href="/facts/American_Mathematical_Society/fr5gotCt">American Mathematical Society</a>, pp. 269–277, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-8218-2746-8, <a href="/facts/MR_(identifier)/uP137L11">MR</a> <a href="https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=1874536">1874536</a></li>
<li>Zwegers, S. P. (2002), <a href="http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2003-0127-094324/inhoud.htm"><i>Mock Theta Functions</i></a>, Utrecht PhD thesis, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 90-393-3155-3</li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.mi.uni-koeln.de/home-institut/Beschaeftigte/Personen/Lehrkoerper_Mitarbeiter/Mitarbeiter_alphabetisch/Zwegers,Sander.en.html">Home Page at the University of Cologne</a></li>
<li><a href="https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=68601">Sander P. Zwegers</a> at the <a href="/facts/Mathematics_Genealogy_Project/J7AFo1Do">Mathematics Genealogy Project</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>27] S. P. ZWEGERS – Mock Theta Functions. Thesis, Utrecht, 2002. Republished in 2008. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Don Zagier Ramanujan´s Mock Theta Functions and their Applications (d'après Zwegers and Bringmann-Ono), Séminaire Bourbaki, No. 986, 2007 <a href="http://people.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/zagier/files/aster/326" target="_blank">http://people.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/zagier/files/aster/326</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Peter Lynch, Timely reminder of a mathematical genius, The Irish Times, Dec 6, 2012. <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/timely-reminder-of-a-mathematical-genius-1.1329" target="_blank">https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/timely-reminder-of-a-mathematical-genius-1.1329</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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