On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 9:44 AM, kcrisman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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).
Hi, You might find this useful: http://flask.sagenb.org/home/pub/32/ William > > 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 > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
