sentences:  Ken Ono was chaired, on June 7th 2019, as Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics, at the University of Virginia.In April 2014 Ono announced that he and two others had found a framework for the Rogers–Ramanujan identities and their arithmetic properties, solving a long-standing mystery stemming from the work of Ramanujan.The findings yield a treasure trove of algebraic numbers and formulas to access them.