The number 1729 may look ordinary, but a casual remark by Srinivasa Ramanujan turned it into a mathematical legend, ...

Said one mathematician to another: “The number of my taxicab was 1729 . . . rather a dull number.” Said the second: “No, Hardy! No . . . It is the smallest, number expressible as the sum of two cubes ...

The problem of 42 -- at least as it relates to whether the number could be considered the sum of three cubes -- has finally been solved. The question of whether every number under 100 could be ...

THE “last theorem of Fermat” states that if x, y, z, p denote positive integers, the equation X p + Y p =Z p is impossible if p exceeds 2: thus ho cube can be the sum of two cubes, and so on. If the ...