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Will Jagy
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My main activity is in number theory of integral positive ternary quadratic forms. This began through years of working with Irving Kaplansky. Much of his unpublished writing on quadratic forms can be found as pdfs at

http://zakuski.math.utsa.edu/~kap/

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[email protected]

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