A Short Proof of Jacobi's Formula for the Number of Representations of an Integer as a Sum of Four Squares

DOI10.2307/2324461zbMath0769.11020arXivmath/9206203OpenAlexW2963289873MaRDI QIDQ5286090

Doron Zeilberger, Shalosh B. XIV Ekhad, George E. Andrews

Publication date: 29 June 1993

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9206203

zbMATH Keywords

representations of integerssums of four squaresJacobi's four square theoremfinite identities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of squares and representations by other particular quadratic forms (11E25)

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