On 3/12/07, DanK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > my name is Daniel Köhl and I´m a student of mathematics and physical > education at the Johannes-Gutenberg Universität of Mainz. I´m writing > to you, because I´m working on vandiver´s conjecture for my exam.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You should explain the nature of this "exam". Obviously we don't want to help you "cheat" on an exam. What sort of exam is it? Please clarify. > First I have written to Joe Buhler and he forwarded me to this list. > He wrote that you eventually could help me. I found some intresting > works of Joe Buhler et. al. about the irregular primes, which relate > to the Bernoulli numbers and Vandiver´s conjecture, like it is > mentioned in these papers. I tried a little bit with sage and found > the command bernoulli_mod_p from you to compute the bernoulli numbers > modulo p. Now I would ask, if you have programmed a algorithm to > verify vandiver´s conjecture. Joe Buhler et. al have described it a > little bit in their work: Irregular primes and cyclotomic invariants > to 12 million. I would be glad, if you can tell me the algorithm or > command, if it exists, or explain how to program it, because I´m a bad > programmer and have never worked with sage before. I excuse me for my > bad english and my question. I would be very grateful, if you could > help me and I hope I may contact you with further questions, if there > arise some. > > Yours sincerely, > Daniel Köhl > > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
