On a construction for the representation of a positive integer as the sum of four squares

zbMath0637.10017MaRDI QIDQ1098873

B. George

Publication date: 1987

Published in: L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

sums of squares; continued fractions; Gaussian integers; sum of two squares; explicit representative; sum of four squares

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

11P05: Waring's problem and variants

11A55: Continued fractions

11R04: Algebraic numbers; rings of algebraic integers

11E16: General binary quadratic forms