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During the summer of 1975, I spent a few days with my mother and sister who were on holidays near La Baule. I had just left École Polytechnique, and needed some rest after the military service.
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Balasubramanian, Deshouillers and Dress established in 1986 that g(4) = 19, thereby closing up (in a certain sense, which would take us too far to describe here) Waring’s classical problem.
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See our book Divisors for an expository text on this subject.
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But this density is strictly positive, which shows that the tendency on which Erdős based his conjecture is nevertheless quite constraining.
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Tenenbaum, G. (2013). 1105: First Steps in a Mysterious Quest. In: Graham, R., Nešetřil, J., Butler, S. (eds) The Mathematics of Paul Erdős I. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7258-2_20
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