Take two positive whole numbers that are both less than 20. The difference in the squares of these numbers is a perfect cube and the difference in their cubes is a perfect square. (Perfect means that ...

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People are cutting their dogs’ fur into perfect cubes, in the latest dog hairdressing trend to sweep Asia. The eccentric look is all about precision and clean lines as owners painstakingly trim their ...

Mathematician Andrew Wiles of the University of Oxford was awarded the prestigious Abel Prize for his remarkable proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the early 90s, reports Business Insider. Wiles won 6 ...

The sequence of perfect square years starts all the way back at 1 AD, and continues at increasingly wider intervals. As the number nnn grows larger, the gaps between successive perfect square years ...