On Sums of Consecutive Squares

An elliptic surface related to sums of consecutive squares

The theory of Mordell-Weil lattices is applied to a specific example of a rational elliptic surface. This provides a complete description of the sections of this surface, and of the sections which are defined over Q. The surface is related to the diophantine problem of expressing squares as a sum of consecutive squares. Some consequences which our description has to this problem are discussed.

on direct sums of baer modules

the notion of baer modules was defined recently

On Sums of Three Squares

(1) r3(n) = 4πn S3(n), where the singular series S3(n) is given by (16) with Q = ∞. While in principle this exact formula can be used to answer almost any question concerning r3(n), the ensuing calculations can be tricky because of the slow convergence of the singular series S3(n). Thus, one often sidesteps (1) and attacks problems involving r3(n) directly. For example, concerning the mean valu...

Sums of Consecutive Integers

Wai Yan Pong ([email protected]) received his B.Sc. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was a Doob Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for three years. He then moved to California and is now teaching at California State University, Dominguez Hills. His research interests are in m...

Sums of distinct squares