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The first and last papers of Harald Bohr deal with ordinary Dirichlet series and their order (or Lindelöf) function μ(σ) (= inf{α;f(σ + it) + 0(|t|α)}). The Lindelöf hypothesis is μ(σ) = inf(0, ½ − t) when an = (−1)n. Are there ordinary Dirichlet series with −l < μ′ (σ) < 0 for some σ? A negative answer would imply Lindelöf's hypothesis. This is the last problem of Harald Bohr. This paper gives (1) a review on Bohr's results on ordinary Dinchlet series; (2) a review on results of the author and of Queffelec on “almost sure” and “quasi sure” properties of series with the solution of a previous problem of Bohr; (3) the following answer to the last problem: μ′(σ) can approach − ½, and necessarily μ(σ + μ(σ) + ½) = 0. The characterization of the order functions of ordinary Dirichlet series remains an open question.
In a manuscript discovered in 1976 by George E. Andrews, Ramanujan states a formula for a certain continued fraction, without proof. In this paper we establish formulae for the convergents to the continued fraction, from which Ramanujan's result is easily deduced.