Over the last few years, a large group of mathematicians have been developing an online database to systematically collect the known facts, numerical data, and algorithms concerning some of the most central types of objects in modern number theory, namely the L-functions associated to various number fields, curves, and modular forms, as well as further data about these modular forms. This of course includes the most famous examples of L-functions and modular forms respectively, namely the Riemann zeta function and the discriminant modular form
, but there are countless other examples of both. The connections between these classes of objects lie at the heart of the Langlands programme.
As of today, the “L-functions and modular forms database” is now out of beta, and open to the public; at present the database is mostly geared towards specialists in computational number theory, but will hopefully develop into a more broadly useful resource as time develops. An article by John Cremona summarising the purpose of the database can be found here.
(Thanks to Andrew Sutherland and Kiran Kedlaya for the information.)

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11 May, 2016 at 3:31 am
Anonymous
Can (the numerical part in) Helfgott’s recent proof of the ternary Goldbach conjecture be based only on this database?
11 May, 2016 at 7:20 am
Terence Tao
Not quite yet. There are two significant numerical inputs to Helfgott’s work. One is the verification of ternary Goldbach up to 10^30 or so by Helfgott and Platt, which does not involve L-functions and would be outside of the scope of the database. The other is the verification of GRH by Platt for conductors up to 300000 and height times conductor up to about 10^8. It looks like this is not currently in the database, although there is a related data set of Platt containing the first 10^11 or so zeroes of zeta. Platt is listed as a contributor to the database, so perhaps his data will be uploaded to the lmfdb in the future.
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