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Jul 9, 2022 at 20:47 vote accept D_S
Jul 6, 2022 at 9:52 comment added reuns The first occurence was probably as the Laurent coefficients of (Weierstrass) elliptic functions at $0$, without thinking to the action of $SL_2(\Bbb{Z})$ on the upper half plane. The modular functions parametrize complex tori so it is natural to study complex tori first.
Jul 6, 2022 at 9:00 answer added Carlo Beenakker timeline score: 7
Jul 6, 2022 at 0:36 comment added Will Sawin Surely the lattice point version came up first, and the second version out of attempts to generalize it
Jul 5, 2022 at 21:01 comment added Carlo Beenakker some aspects are discussed in mathoverflow.net/a/220535/11260
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