An Introduction to the Sato-Tate Conjecture (Edray Goins, Pomona College)
Millikan 2099, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United StatesIn 1846, Ernst Eduard Kummer conjectured a distribution of values of a cubic Gauss sum after computing a few values by hand. This was forgotten about for nearly 100 years until John von Neumann and Herman Goldstine attempted to verify the conjecture as a way to test the new ENIAC machine in 1953. They found […]