Hilbert's seventeenth problem

Hilbert's seventeenth problem is one of the 23 Hilbert problems set out in a celebrated list compiled in 1900 by David Hilbert. It entails expression of definite rational functions as quotients of sums of squares.

This was solved in the affirmative, in 1927, by Emil Artin.

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Hilbert's problems
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