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2 unusual facts about Heegner


Heegner

A Heegner number is a number n such that Q(√−n) is an imaginary quadratic field of class number 1.

The Stark–Heegner theorem identifies the imaginary quadratic fields of class number 1.


Kurt Heegner

Heegner's proof was finally accepted as essentially correct in 1969, after Harold Stark, who had independently arrived at a similar proof, showed that Heegner's proof was more or less equivalent to his own, with only a minor gap in it.


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