Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, B42k (1999), 4 pp.

Herbert S. Wilf

The Number-Theoretic Content of the Jacobi Triple Product Identity

Abstract. We prove the Jacobi Triple Product Identity by exhibiting an elementary number-theoretic proposition that is equivalent to it, and then proving that the proposition is true.

Received: October 1, 1998; Accepted: October 15, 1998.

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