- Start Date:
June 22, 2006
- Event Start Time:
12:00 PM
- Event End Time:
1:00 PM
- Organizers:
Christine Agnese
- Seminar Series:
REU Seminar
- Presenter(s):
Jozsef Beck - Rutgers University
- Event Location:
CoRE 301
- Abstract:
Modern number theory started with the conjecture of Fermat (and Girard) that the Pythagorean equation p=x^2+y^2 is solvable to an odd prime p if and only if p is of the form 4k+1. The first published proof was given by Euler about 100 years later. Since then there is a huge interest in understanding similar questions. Shockingly, most of them are still open. In particular, I will explain what we know about a particular question: Euler's Numerus Idoneus Problem.
