The Eureka theorem of Gauss
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Published:2024-02-15
Issue:571
Volume:108
Page:94-104
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ISSN:0025-5572
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Container-title:The Mathematical Gazette
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Math. Gaz.
Abstract
On 10th July 1796, when he was still a teenager, Gauss famously wrote EYPHKA! in his diary when recording the completion of a proof that every positive integer is the sum of at most three triangular numbers.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)