Seminar series
Date
Thu, 15 Oct 2015
Time
16:00 -
17:00
Location
L5
Speaker
Samir Siksek
Organisation
University of Warwick
In 1851, Carl Jacobi made the experimental observation that all integers are sums of seven non-negative cubes, with precisely 17 exceptions, the largest of which is 454. Building on previous work by Maillet, Landau, Dickson, Linnik, Watson, Bombieri, Ramaré, Elkies and many others, we complete the proof of Jacobi's observation.