Talk:Heegner number

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No, rational numbers. Charles Matthews 20:57, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I had said that I would either create this page or work on it if someone else created it. Now, someone else has created it and I realize that this topic is way over my head. Nevertheless, I will continue my study of imaginary quadratic fields. PrimeFan 19:38, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)

--- "Equivalently, its ring of integers has unique factorization"

Should "ring of integers" be "ring of ideals" or something similar? It's been a while since I've taken any number theory classes and I'm not entirely sure on this.

No, "ring of integers" is correct. See this article. An ""ideal" is a subset of a ring that is closed under addition, with the additional property that if any element in the ideal is multiplied by a ring element, the result still lies in the ideal. If we consider the ring of ordinary integers, then if n is any integer the set {..., −3n, −2n, −n, 0, n, 2n, 3n, ...} is an ideal because (a) it's closed under addition, and (b) if we multiply any multiple of n by an integer we obtain another multiple of n. (The concept of an ideal grew out of a desire to understand different sorts of algebraic numbers, where addition and multiplication aren't necessarily tied together the way they are in the natural numbers.) DavidCBryant 19:34, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

structure of the J(...)=x^3 term

I read today a recent post on sci.math.research by Titus P. on the additional structure of the integers obtained as exp(pi sqrt n), namely e^(pi sqrt n) - 744 = (12(a(n)^2-1))^3, where the a(n) are consequently extremely close to an integer for Heegner numbers (=3 mod 4). Could somebody sufficiently competent add one or 2 phrases (and/or xrefs) about that? — MFH:Talk 03:53, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Mathworld neologism?

This term appears to be a neologism from mathworld. Google books returns two results, one the print version of mathworld, and the other some pop math book. Google scholar does no better, returning 3 results: all post-date the mathworld article. One result is published in a journal. The other two results are web-published. One references the other, which in turn references mathworld. Does anyone think this isn't a mathworld neologism? RobHar (talk) 03:12, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

I'll post to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics, and if no one replies I'm going to nominate for deletion (and suggest merging content into Stark–Heegner theorem, Ramanujan's constant, and Formula for primes). RobHar (talk) 00:32, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
There are a little more Google Scholar and Books hits on "Heegner numbers" than "Heegner number". PrimeHunter (talk) 01:24, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
Definitely not a MathWorld neologism. The term "Heegner numbers" is used by Conway and Guy in The Book of Numbers here (maybe that was what you meant by "some pop math book" ?). This 1996 usage is cited in the MathWorld article, and I have added a ref to our article. Since we have Conway and Guy as a primary source and Weisstein and Sloane/OEIS as secondary sources (plus a few other Google Books hits), I think we can now count this as established terminology. Gandalf61 (talk) 08:43, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
Alright, thanks. I find it weird that "Heegner numbers" returned more results than "Heegner number". The pop math book I was referring to was "The Kingdom of Infinite Number: A Field Guide"; had the Conway book turned up with the "Heegner number" query, I would've been more accepting. The term is still clearly extremely rare and not used at all in the field, but oh well I guess. Thanks again. RobHar (talk) 14:50, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

I think it a useful article; if it exists, it needs a name. Is discriminants of complex quadratic fields of class number 1 really an improvement? Septentrionalis PMAnderson 15:46, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

I think that the entirety of the contents can quite nicely be merged into the three articles I mentioned above, thus rendering this article a mere definition of a rarely used term. RobHar (talk) 16:26, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
No, Ramanujan's constant should be merged here (there is no corresponding name for the other near-integers); any of this would be disproportionate in Formula for primes; and Stark-Heegner theorem is nicely complementary to this article. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 16:55, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
This may be a relatively recent neologism. But I don't find it to be of the vexing kind - it's not promoting anything, just giving a label to a short but significant list of discriminants. There is something to be said on both sides, but I think the status quo is OK. Charles Matthews (talk) 07:31, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
After actually bothering to read the notability guidelines for numbers, I see that this article as it stands violates criterion 4 of Wikipedia:Notability (numbers)#Notability of sequences of numbers, i.e.
Is there at least one commonly accepted name for this sequence?
There is clearly no commonly accepted name for this set of numbers. Do what you will with this. RobHar (talk) 15:21, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

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Does anyone know why ${\displaystyle e^{\pi {\sqrt {58}}}}$ is so close to an integer? 4 T C 07:54, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Good question. I've just checked it (using SpeedCrunch, if anyone's interested) and you're right, it is very close to one. It comes to approximately;

24591257751.999999822213241.

I don't know the reason for this either, and I'd be interested to know what it is (I'm guessing that with a result that close to being an integer, there's a reason for it).

Meltingpot (talk) 13:15, 9 February 2014 (UTC)