Building the Biggest Box: Three-factor Polynomials and a Diophantine Equation

作者: Gregory Convertito , David Cruz-Uribe

DOI: 10.4169/MATH.MAG.89.3.201

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摘要: SummaryWe consider a well known calculus question, and show that the solution of this problem is equivalent to finding integer solutions Diophantine equation. We generalize which in turn leads more general give all these describe some historical background.

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