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IJMMS 2004:40, 2149–2159 PII. S0161171204111058 © Hindawi Publishing Corp. SOME THEOREMS ON THE EXPLICIT EVALUATION OF RAMANUJAN’S THETA-FUNCTIONS NAYANDEEP DEKA BARUAH and P. BHATTACHARYYA Received 8 October 2001 Bruce C. Berndt et al. and Soon-Yi Kang have proved many of Ramanujan’s formulas for the explicit evaluation of the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction and theta-functions in terms of Weber-Ramanujan class invariants. In this note, we give alternative proofs of some of these identities of theta-functions recorded by Ramanujan in his notebooks and deduce some formulas for the explicit evaluation of his theta-functions in terms of Weber- Ramanujan class invariants. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 11A55, 11F20, 11F27. 1. Introduction. Ramanujan’s general theta-function f (a,b) is given by ∞ f (a,b) = ak(k+1)/2 bk(k−1)/2 , (1.1) k=−∞ where |ab | 1. If we set a = q2iz , b = q−2iz , and q = eπiτ , where z is complex and Im (τ) 0, then f (a,b) = ϑ3 (z,τ), where ϑ3 (z,τ) denotes one of the classical theta- functions in its standard notation [9, page 464]. After Ramanujan, we define the fol- lowing special types of his theta-function. If |q | 1, then ∞ φ(q) := f (q,q) = 1 +2 qk2 , (1.2) k=1 ∞ ψ(q) := f q,q3 = qk(k+1)/2 , (1.3) k=0