Waring's problem asks whether every natural number can be expressed as a sum of a fixed number of k-th powers of natural numbers.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by Wikipedia, MathWorld, and an arXiv paper, all matching the claim's phrasing of Waring's problem accurately. [tier=silver indep_score=0.925 clusters=2 claim_tier=everyday]
Sources
- List of mathematics history topics (wikipedia)
- https://mathworld.wolfram.com/WaringsProblem.html (corroboration)
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0610739 (corroboration)