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The L-functions and modular forms database (LMFDB) is a database of mathematical objects arising in number theory and connections between them. The database is set up so that each has its own page, which contains a description and links to related objects. [1] [2]
Until 2013, the database and the website were hosted at the University of Washington on NSF-funded servers and administered by William Stein. Since then, the project has been hosted on servers at the University of Warwick, funded by a EPSRC grant.
The LMFDB was officially released on May 10, 2016 at an American Institute of Mathematics workshop in San Jose, a public talk at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and a workshop at the University of Bristol in the UK.
The project consists of a large database, hosted at Warwick, containing a substantial amount of number-theoretical data (for example including over 100 billion zeros of the Riemann Zeta Function, each to 100-bit precision, two million elliptic curves, and much more), allowing different views of the data and showing clearly the links between different mathematical objects, some of which are still only conjectural and all of which are the subject of a large amount of research worldwide. (Image on right showing Phase flow plot of Riemann Zeta function). As well as new mathematical theory, the project involves much algorithmic development, realised and implemented entirely as open source software, so that both the data and the code used to create it and display it is all fully open.
Funding
[edit]- National Science Foundation (United States),
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (United Kingdom),
- American Institute of Mathematics,
- EU 2020 Horizon Open DreamKit Project,
- Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics
and involves researchers from Arizona State University, Dartmouth College, Duquesne University, Oregon State University, the University of California at San Diego, the University of Bristol, the University of Warwick, the University of Washington, the University of Waterloo, and other institutions.
External links
[edit]- ^ "The L-Functions and Modular Forms Database Project". doi:10.1007/s10208-016-9306-z.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "A new way to explore the mathematical universe". Cosmos. 2016-05-11. Retrieved 2019-10-06.