S. Ramanujan introduced a technique, known as Ramanujan's Master Theorem, which provides an analytic expression for the Mellin transform of a function. The main identity of this theorem involves the extrapolation of the sequence of coefficients of the integrand, defined originally as a function on N to C. The history and proof of this result are reviewed. Applications to the evaluation of a variety of definite integrals is presented.

Hooks are prominent in representation theory (of symmetric groups) and they play a role in number theory (via cranks associated to Ramanujan's congruences). A partition of a positive integer n has a Young diagram representation. To each cell in the diagram there is an associated statistic called hook length, and if a number t is absent from the diagram then the partition is called a t-core. A partition is an (s, t)-core if it is both an s-and a t-core. Since the work of Anderson on (s, t)-cores, the topic has received growing attention. This paper expands the discussion to multiple-cores. More precisely, we explore (s, s + 1, . . . , s + k)-core partitions much in the spirit of a recent paper by Stanley and Zanello. In fact, our results exploit connections between three combinatorial objects: multi-cores, posets and lattice paths (with a novel generalization of Dyck paths). Additional results and conjectures are scattered throughout the paper. For example, one of these statements implies a curious symmetry for twin-coprime (s, s + 2)-core partitions.

The focus of this paper is the study of generalized Fibonacci polynomials and Fibonomial coefficients. The former are polynomials {n} in variables s, t given by {0} = 0, {1} = 1, and {n} = s{n−1}+t{n−2} for n ≥ 2. The latter are defined byThese quotients are also polynomials in s, t and specializations give the ordinary binomial coefficients, the Fibonomial coefficients, and the q-binomial coefficients. We present some of their fundamental properties, including a more general recursion for {n}, an analogue of the binomial theorem, a new proof of the Euler-Cassini identity in this setting with applications to estimation of tails of series, and valuations when s and t take on integral values. We also study a corresponding analogue of the Catalan numbers. Conjectures and open problems are scattered throughout the paper.

We analyze properties of the 2-adic valuations of the Stirling numbers of the second kind.

Abstract. We discuss several existing proofs of the value of a quartic integral and present a new proof that evolved from rational Landen transformations. We include our personal renditions as related to the history of these particular computations.