{"title":"The Eureka theorem of Gauss","authors":"Stan Dolan","doi":"10.1017/mag.2024.15","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"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.","PeriodicalId":22812,"journal":{"name":"The Mathematical Gazette","volume":"59 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Mathematical Gazette","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mag.2024.15","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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.