Diophantine imaging reveals the broken symmetry of sums of integer cubes

Eldar Sultanow1, Max Henkel2, Idriss J Aberkane3,4,5

  • 1Capgemini, Bahnhofstraße 30, 90402, Nuremberg, Germany.

Scientific Reports
|January 3, 2024
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