Sums of Two Squares Visualized
Number Theory
2022-12-15 v1
Abstract
We provide a geometric interpretation of Brillhart's celebrated algorithm for expressing a prime as the sum of two squares.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2212.06859,
title = {Sums of Two Squares Visualized},
author = {Ishan Banerjee and Amites Sarkar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.06859},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
8 pages, 3 figures