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Mathematicians crack elusive puzzle involving the number 42

Can we write any number as the sum of three cubes? It’s a puzzle that has perplexed mathematicians for centuries. Now we have finally have an answer for 42

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Å®ÉúСÊÓƵs win millions in the 2020 Breakthrough Prize

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Inside the race to find the first billion-digit prime number

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Computer attempts to replicate the dream-like maths of Ramanujan

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Computer attempts to replicate the dream-like maths of Ramanujan

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Mathematician and physicist Roger Penrose

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Roger Penrose

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Galileo Galilei

Isaac Newton

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Isaac Newton

Sophie Germain

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Sophie Germain

Anne Conway

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Anne Conway

Anne Conway | English philosopher and 17th century influencer

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Marcus du Sautoy: How maths blows my mind – and how it will save us

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Google has created a maths AI that has already proved 1200 theorems

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