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Introduction to number theory lecture 38. Binary quadratic forms

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Richard E Borcherds 53 tutorials here
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This lecture is part of my Berkeley math 115 course “Introduction to number theory”
For the other lectures in the course see https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8yHsr3EFj53L8sMbzIhhXSAOpuZ1Fov8

We start the discussion of binary quadratic forms, define the discriminant, and give a condition for a number to be represented by a binary quadratic form of discriminant d.

The textbook is “An introduction to the theory of numbers” by Niven, Zuckerman, and Montgomery (5th edition).