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1) Message boards : Science : LMFDB Database Website (Message 1795) Posted 5 Dec 2016 by admin Post: Yes thank you Eric, I understand that mathematical lingo is its own language and I am looking up the info now as well. There's a reason why you need years of schooling to understand this stuff. I appreciate it all the more though. Thanks for the replies.
2) Message boards : Science : LMFDB Database Website (Message 1793) Posted 5 Dec 2016 by admin Post: Very interesting that your thesis Advisor is associated with the LMFDB! I think its interesting we are contributing to it and gives me more reason to be glad I chose this project in the BOINC system. Also what are ramified and unramified primes?
3) Message boards : Science : LMFDB Database Website (Message 1791) Posted 4 Dec 2016 by admin Post: Was reading a website article talking about L-functions of which I know nothing about. It then talks about L functions and modular forms database. http://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/exploring-mathematical-universe-260825 (Article that talks about the link below) One excerpt from the article: "Massive computations The scale of the computational effort involved in the LMFDB is staggering: hundreds of CPU years were involved in compiling the databases, requiring thousands of hours of human effort. A recent computation by Andrew Sutherland at MIT used 72,000 cores of Google’s Compute Engine to complete in hours a tabulation that would have taken more than a century on a single computer. As noted by Sutherland, “computations in number theory are often amenable to parallelization, and this makes it easy to scale them to the cloud.” The application of large-scale cloud computing to research in pure mathematics is just one of the ways in which the project is pushing forward the frontier of mathematics." http://www.lmfdb.org/ModularForm/GL2/TotallyReal/ My question is are we contributing to this in some way? I noticed this page regarding Hilbert Modular forms and some familar things came out including the current project symbol of \Q(\sqrt{2}) I just wanted to see if they are working in parallel to what we are doing or they are doing something else. It's like a Periodic table for Number Theorists. I'm sure the admin of the site knows it all too. Thanks for any help.