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Numberphile video on the topic with Andrew Booker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASoz_NuIvP0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASoz_NuIvP0 which is a followup

Numberphile video on the topic with Andrew Booker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASoz_NuIvP0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASoz_NuIvP0 which is a followup from the 2015 episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wymmCdLdPvM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wymmCdLdPvM when the 33 problem was unsolved. The announcement elicited this Mathoverflow discussion about "mic drop" moments in mathematics: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/325105/what-are-some-noteworthy-mic-drop-moments-in-math https://mathoverflow.net/questions/325105/what-are-some-note...

jhncls 8y ago
Some additional links: Sander Huisman's 2016 paper about solving the three cubes problem for 74, using a supercomputer in Lyon [0]. The approach for 33 is quite similar, just augmenting the range searched (and some additional tricks to further reduce the search space). Andrew Booker's paper about 33 [1]. It's quite funny how Numberphile inspired these searches. [0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.07746 https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.07746 [1] https://people.maths.bris.ac.uk/~maarb/papers/cubesv1.pdf https://people.maths.bris.ac.uk/~maarb/papers/cubesv1.pdf