An American mathematician has cracked part of a problem that had remained unsolved for 64 years. Andrew Booker, Reader of Pure Mathematics at the University of Bristol in the U.K., worked out how to ...

For decades, a math puzzle has stumped the smartest mathematicians in the world. x 3 +y 3 +z 3 =k, with k being all the numbers from one to 100, is a Diophantine equation that's sometimes known as ...

A series of unsolved puzzles in number theory called Diophantine problems date back to 3,700 years ago. Over the years mathematicians have whittled away at them, and recent work has made significant ...