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Sep 2, 2019 at 17:58 answer added M. Vidyasagar timeline score: 1
Mar 1, 2019 at 11:38 comment added Josu Etxezarreta Martinez Thank you, now I understand what you were saying there.
Mar 1, 2019 at 10:04 comment added Henri Cohen Lagrange showed that any $n$ is a sum of 4 squares, and if I am not mistaken, Jacobi showed that the number of such representations is $8(\sigma_1(n)-\sigma_1(n/4))$.
Mar 1, 2019 at 9:59 comment added Josu Etxezarreta Martinez Thanks for the insight, I had the intuition that there are $p+1$ solutions to the equation. One last thing, what do you mean by Lagrange-Jacobi in the parenthesis?
Feb 28, 2019 at 15:05 comment added Henri Cohen The conditions (apart from $a>0$) are automatically satisfied up to permutation. The total number (Lagrange Jacobi) is $8(p+1)$, so since one of $a$ $b$ $c$ $d$ is specified, divide by $4$, and since you ask $a>0$, divide again by $2$, so in every case the answer is that there are $p+1$ solutions.
Feb 28, 2019 at 10:58 history asked Josu Etxezarreta Martinez CC BY-SA 4.0