Every Number is Expressible as the Sum of How Many Polygonal Numbers?

DOI10.2307/2324367zbMath0805.11014OpenAlexW4235896249WikidataQ56432150 ScholiaQ56432150MaRDI QIDQ4296422

Richard K. Guy

Publication date: 19 June 1994

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2324367

zbMATH Keywords

surveyproblemsrepresentations of integerssums of polygonal numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elementary number theory (11A99) Additive number theory; partitions (11P99)

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Further results on Hilbert's tenth problem ⋮ Weighted sums of generalized polygonal numbers with coefficients $1$ or $2$ ⋮ On universal sums of polygonal numbers ⋮ A result similar to Lagrange's theorem ⋮ Fermat's polygonal number theorem for repeated generalized polygonal numbers ⋮ Polygonal numbers ⋮ Unnamed Item ⋮ Universal sums of three quadratic polynomials ⋮ Almost universal ternary sums of polygonal numbers

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