From: geoff@math.ucla.edu (Geoffrey Mess)
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Re: Q: How to uniformly distribute n points on surface of sphere
Date: 10 Feb 1995 19:50:13 GMT

See A. Lubotzky, R. Phillips, and P. Sarnak:
Hecke operators and distributing points on the sphere I
Comm Pure App Math 34 1986 S149-S186.
Hecke operators and distributing points on the sphere II
Comm Pure App Math 40 1987 401-420.

An interesting application of automorphic forms to  a topic
in numerical analysis !



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Geoffrey Mess
Department of Mathematics, UCLA. geoff@math.ucla.edu