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| Nov 24, 2020 at 8:38 | comment | added | C.S. | I confess that, as a student unaware of the history of the subject and unaware of the connection with cyclotomy, I did not find the law or its so-called elementary proofs appealing. I suppose, although I would not have (and could not have) expressed myself in this way that I saw it as little more than a mathematical curiosity, fit more for amateurs than for the attention of the serious mathematician that I then hoped to become. It was only in Hermann Weyl's book on the algebraic theory of numbers that I appreciated it as anything more :- R.P. Langlands on QRT proof. | |
| Sep 14, 2016 at 20:10 | comment | added | Wojowu | @DavidCorwin The first time I have seen your remark was probably over two years ago, when I knew no Galois theory nor algebraic number theory. Today I know enough of these two fields to understand and appreciate the proof you mention, and I have to say - it is really a proof which makes quadratic reciprocity less mysterious! | |
| Apr 10, 2015 at 12:43 | history | edited | Gerry Myerson |
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| Apr 6, 2015 at 15:17 | answer | added | Alexey Ustinov | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 13:13 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Ben Webster♦ | ||
| Feb 26, 2014 at 8:17 | answer | added | user45639 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 20, 2013 at 22:10 | answer | added | ACL | timeline score: 14 | |
| Jun 12, 2012 at 12:56 | answer | added | David Benjamin Lim | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 15, 2012 at 0:53 | answer | added | Ken | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 26, 2011 at 1:51 | answer | added | Moosbrugger | timeline score: 21 | |
| Jul 25, 2011 at 16:00 | answer | added | Franz Lemmermeyer | timeline score: 28 | |
| May 27, 2011 at 16:35 | answer | added | C.S. | timeline score: 8 | |
| Aug 30, 2010 at 17:39 | comment | added | David Corwin | I have to say that I found quadratic reciprocity confusing until I learned the proof using Frobenius elements of $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{p^*}) \subseteq \mathbb{Q}(\zeta_p)$. The other proofs seemed to be long and ad hoc combinatorial arguments which somehow came up with the result, but the proof using Galois groups was so simple! | |
| Feb 1, 2010 at 22:01 | answer | added | Mark B Villarino | timeline score: 8 | |
| Feb 1, 2010 at 18:25 | answer | added | Mark B Villarino | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jan 19, 2010 at 22:50 | answer | added | KConrad | timeline score: 65 | |
| Nov 26, 2009 at 15:29 | answer | added | Simon | timeline score: 13 | |
| Nov 26, 2009 at 9:23 | answer | added | Guillermo Mantilla | timeline score: 12 | |
| Oct 26, 2009 at 15:08 | vote | accept | Ben Webster♦ | ||
| Oct 20, 2009 at 22:20 | answer | added | Thomas Riepe | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 20, 2009 at 21:01 | answer | added | rita the dog | timeline score: 9 | |
| Oct 20, 2009 at 19:31 | answer | added | Noah Snyder | timeline score: 139 | |
| Oct 20, 2009 at 18:46 | answer | added | Joel Dodge | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 20, 2009 at 17:37 | answer | added | MRB | timeline score: 16 | |
| Oct 20, 2009 at 17:14 | answer | added | Alon Amit | timeline score: 14 | |
| Oct 20, 2009 at 16:46 | answer | added | Jared Weinstein | timeline score: 20 | |
| Oct 20, 2009 at 14:04 | answer | added | Qiaochu Yuan | timeline score: 22 | |
| Oct 20, 2009 at 13:15 | answer | added | Peter McNamara | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 20, 2009 at 13:00 | history | asked | Ben Webster♦ | CC BY-SA 2.5 |