Ramanujan's approach therefore also involves a great deal of labour involving highly efficient manipulation. A person who used similar approach was Jacobi. It's rather unfortunate that the techniques of Jacobi and Ramanujan have been ditched in modern times. $\endgroup$ More @Wikipedia
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