This unique book explores the world of q, known technically as basic hypergeometric

series, and represents the author's personal and life-long study--inspired by Ramanujan--of

aspects of this broad topic. While the level of mathematical sophistication is

graduated, the book is designed to appeal to advanced undergraduates as well as

researchers in the field. The principal aims are to demonstrate the power of the methods

and the beauty of the results. The book contains novel proofs of many results in the

theory of partitions and the theory of...