Timeline for "Right" Way of Introducing Modular Forms to Undergraduate Audience?
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| Nov 20, 2009 at 19:55 | comment | added | Tom Church | Couldn't you say that sin(pi x) transforms under Z with nontrivial factor of automorphy given by j(n) = (-1)^n? | |
| Nov 20, 2009 at 4:35 | comment | added | Nick Salter | Thanks; I was thinking of introducing them by analogy with the trigonometric functions. The only issue is that with trig functions, their "automorphy factor" is always 1 and I want a good way of motivating the particular factors that arise in modular forms. I do like the observation with sin( pi x/N). | |
| Nov 20, 2009 at 3:09 | history | answered | JSE | CC BY-SA 2.5 |