On Monday or Wed., I think I'd like to show my intro number theory course a cool new result we would have no hope of actually examining, but whose result they can understand - the Barnet-Lamb/Geraghty/Harris/ Taylor result on number of ways to write a prime as a sum of twelve squares, which relies on the Fundamental Lemma. (I like pointing out Fields Medal -related work in my classes if I can, as long as the statement of the results is comprehensible.)
Problem is, I don't have a convenient (non-slow) "sum of twelve squares" function handy in Sage. I thought maybe some Sato-Tate experts could advise me how to modify some of the stuff at sage.math.washington.edu/sato-tate/ to show this - preferably, directly with input n (and then making a histogram for primes less than n, with @interact). Thanks in advance! - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
