A question of the distribution of points on a curve over a finite field.
In the transformation formulas for the logarithms of the classical theta-functions, certain sums arise that are analogous to the Dedekind sums in the transformation of the logarithm of the eta-function. A new reciprocity law is established for one of these analogous sums and then applied to prove the law of quadratic reciprocity.
350 years ago in Spring of 1655 Sir William Brouncker on a request by John Wallis obtained a beautiful continued fraction for 4/π. Brouncker never published his proof. Many sources on the history of Mathematics claim that this proof was lost forever. In this paper we recover the original proof from Wallis' remarks presented in his Arithmetica Infinitorum. We show that Brouncker's and Wallis' formulas can be extended to MacLaurin's sinusoidal spirals via related Euler's products. We derive Ramanujan's...
Let be a prime number. In this paper we prove that the addition in -ary without carry admits a recursive definition like in the already known cases and .