scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1284387

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Authors F. van der Blij

Publication date 1 June 2000

zbMATH Keywords

Hardy-Littlewood methodlocal-global considerations of Hasse-Minkowskiquadratic formsrepresentation of integerssums of squarestheta function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to number theory (11-01) Sums of squares and representations by other particular quadratic forms (11E25)

Review text

As the author remarks, this is not a scientific paper but a `story'. It was written for high school teachers. The central topic is the representation of integers by quadratic forms, and many methods and directions are touched upon in this short paper. We encounter the \(SL_2({\mathbb Z})\)-classes of binary quadratic forms, the theta function approach of Jacobi to sums of four squares, the Hardy-Littlewood method and the local-global considerations for quadratic forms of Hasse-Minkowski. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0908.00021].

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