Euler function

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In mathematics, the Euler function is given by

${\displaystyle \phi (q)=\prod _{k=1}^{\infty }(1-q^{k}),\quad |q|<1.}$

Named after Leonhard Euler, it is a model example of a q-series and provides the prototypical example of a relation between combinatorics and complex analysis.