Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, B93a (2025), 4 pp.

Hartosh Singh Bal and Gaurav Bhatnagar

An Easy Proof of Ramanujan's Famous Congruences p(5m+4) ≡ 0 ≡ τ(5m+5) (mod 5)

Abstract. We present a proof of Ramanujan's congruences

p(5n+4) ≡ 0 (mod 5)   and   τ(5n+5) ≡ 0 (mod 5).

The proof only requires a limiting case of Jacobi's triple product, a result that Ramanujan knew well, and a technique which Ramanujan used himself to compute values of τ(n).


Received: August 4, 2025. Revised: August 26, 2025. Accepted: August 26, 2025.

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