1966 Mathematical Breakthrough: CDC 6600 Supercomputer Used to Disprove Euler's Sum of Powers Conjecture
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Summary
In 1966, mathematicians Lander and Parkin published a groundbreaking paper consisting of just two sentences that reported finding a counterexample to Euler's Sum of Powers Conjecture using a CDC 6600 supercomputer. Their work demonstrated the power of computational mathematics by using direct search methods on early supercomputing hardware to solve a long-standing mathematical problem.
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They reported that they had used a program that used direct search on a CDC 6600 to obtain one counterexample to Euler's Sum Of Powers Conjecture.
The paper demonstrated the intersection of mathematics and early supercomputing technology.
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