Talk:Quadratic Gauss sum

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[edit] Standard notation

I have looked in several books (Ireland and Rosen, Fröhlich and Taylor, et. al.) and have seen different notations for gauss sums, but not the one used here. Is this article really most representative of current standards in this area? (I am not an expert here, just interested - so comments from experts would be helpful!) Madmath789 21:44, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

I don't think there is an entirely standard notation. G(χ,ψ) as at Gauss sum is pretty standard. This notation is OK, really. (I will claim to be a Gauss sum expert.) Charles Matthews 16:08, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

OK - I have also since found an example that agrees with the article (Apostol) - and I knew about your thesis being in this area :-) Madmath789 16:29, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Derivation

Could you put up a derivation of the value of some easy Gauss sums, or at least a sketch of the proof? It seems that no one on the internet will even bother write a proof for this; I think that at least Wikipedia should be the source for it.

[edit] n = 0?

When evaluated at n = 0, the definition gives m, but the explicit formulae in Evaluation of Gauss sums do not agree.--80.136.153.37 08:39, 28 August 2007 (UTC)