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Department of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego
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Math 296 - Graduate Colloquium
Aaron Pollack
UC San Diego
Modular forms and sums of four squares
Abstract:
How many ways can a positive integer be written as the sum of four squares? There is a simple formula for the number of ways, which goes back to Jacobi. I'll introduce modular forms and sketch how they provide an answer to this question.
Host: Elham Izadi
February 9, 2021
3:00 PM
Contact Elham Izadi for Zoom link
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