Pfaff's Method Revisited
Abstract
In 1797, Pfaff gave a simple proof of a 3F2 hypergeometric series summation formula which was much later reproved by Andrews in 1996. In the same paper, Andrews also proved other well-known hypergeometric identities using Pfaff's method. In this paper, we prove a number of terminating q-hypergeometric series-product identities using Pfaff's method thereby providing a detailed account of its wide applicability.
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