After 65 years, supercomputers finally solve this unsolvable maths problem
Aug 24, 2020
2 minutes
BY DAVID GROSSMAN
Andrew Booker was searching for topics to present at his children’s maths club when he stumbled on a YouTube video about the sum-of-three-cubes puzzle. ‘It was a case of serendipity,’ the University of Bristol mathematics professor says. The video – produced by the popular YouTube channel Numberphile – led him to solve a curious equation
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