For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world—like a supercomputer finally solving the Sum of Three Cubes problem that puzzled mathematicians for 65 years—we’re forever crunching ...

A carpenter, working with a buzz saw, wishes to cut a wooden cube, three inches on a side, into 27 one-inch cubes. This can be easily done by making six cuts through the cube, keeping the pieces ...

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 ...