Monthly Archives: January 2017

The class number 100 problem

Some time ago, Mark Watkins busted open the “class number n” problem for smallish n, finding all imaginary quadratic fields of class number at most 100 (the original paper is here) Although the paper describes the method in detail, it … Continue reading

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Central Extensions, Updated

I previously mentioned a problem concerning polynomials, whose motivation came from thinking about weight one forms and the inverse Galois problem for finite subgroups of \(\mathrm{GL}_2(\mathbf{C}).\) I still like the polynomial problem, but I realized that I was confused about … Continue reading

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