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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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