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Two notes on Rankin's book on the modular group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Roger Lyndon
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Université de MontpellierMontpellier, France.
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We supply proofs that are simple, and possibly partly new, for two theorems that appear in Rankin's book [6].

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1973

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