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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Math 196/296 - Student Colloquium

Cristian Popescu

UCSD

Right triangles and related Diophantine stories

Abstract:

I will discuss links between a certain class of Pythagorean triples and certain aspects of modern number theory, such as the theory of elliptic curves, their L-functions, and the various still unsolved conjectures predicting their behavior.

Host:

October 20, 2004

12:00 PM

AP&M 2402

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