{"id":90894,"date":"2019-05-17T14:23:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T21:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/bristol-mathematician-cracks-diophantine-puzzle"},"modified":"2019-05-17T14:23:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T21:23:10","slug":"bristol-mathematician-cracks-diophantine-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/bristol-mathematician-cracks-diophantine-puzzle","title":{"rendered":"Bristol mathematician cracks Diophantine puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ASoz_NuIvP0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A mathematician from the University of Bristol has found a solution to part of a 64-year old mathematical problem \u2013 expressing the number 33 as the sum of three cubes.<\/p>\n<p>Since the 1950s, mathematicians have wondered if all <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/whole+numbers\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">whole numbers<\/a> could be expressed as the sum of three cubes; whether the equation k = x\u00b3+ y\u00b3+ z\u00b3 always has a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/solution\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The puzzle is a Diophantine equation in the field of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/number+theory\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">number theory<\/a>, and forms part of one of the most mysterious and wickedly hard <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/problems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">problems<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/mathematics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">mathematics<\/a>. We still don\u2019t know the answer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-04-bristol-mathematician-diophantine-puzzle.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mathematician from the University of Bristol has found a solution to part of a 64-year old mathematical problem \u2013 expressing the number 33 as the sum of three cubes. Since the 1950s, mathematicians have wondered if all whole numbers could be expressed as the sum of three cubes; whether the equation k = x\u00b3+ [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}