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New Zealand Mathematics Colloquium 2000
November 26-29, 2000
Dept of Mathematics, University of Waikato
Hamilton, New Zealand

Organizers
Kevin Broughan, Rua Murray, Ernie Kalnins, Stephen Joe

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Ramanujan, elliptic functions and sums of squares
by
Heung Yeung Lam
Massey University

In this talk, I will prove formulae for the number of ways an integer can be expressed as a sum of two squares, and as a sum of four squares. The proofs are elementary and make use of one of Ramanujan's identities and elliptic functions.

Date received: September 27, 2000

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