The Gauss' class number problems

Time：2023-10-18, Wednesday, 12:00-13:00

Venue：BIMSA A4-1

Organizer：Yong Suk Moon, Koji Shimizu

Speaker：Farahnaz Amiri

This is an in-person seminar at BIMSA over lunch, aimed to promote communications in the Number Theory teams at BIMSA and YMSC. Each talk is 45 minutes long and does not focus on research results. Instead, we encourage each speaker to discuss either (1) a basic notion in Number Theory or related fields or (2) applications or computational aspects of Number Theory. People interested in Number Theory are welcome to attend.

Abstract：

In this talk, first, we will review the problem proposed by Gauss, and their consequences. After that, we talk about the methodology for solving some of these problems.

DATEOctober 18, 2023

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