Introduction to number theory lecture 43 Gaussian integers
Channel: Richard E Borcherds
Date: 2022-04-04

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 give some applications of Gaussian integers to the binary quadratic form x^2+y^2.

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