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AN event is being staged at Cross Hills to raise desperately-needed funds for hospital cancer-patient accommodation. Brooke Robertson is organising a rounders match and disco in support of the patient hotel on the Bexley Wing at St James’ Hospital, Leeds. The facility provides accommodation for people receiving treatment, who live some distance from the hospital. Brooke – from Sutton-in-Craven – said she was moved to arrange the fundraiser after someone she knows, Andrew Booker, benefited from the hotel provision. She said: “As an outpatient with no transport of his own, the thought of travelling back and forth every day for five weeks for treatment was quite daunting for Andrew.
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3 = 3 might be obvious to any high school algebra student, where x, y, and z can be either 1, 1, and 1, or 4, 4, and -5. Finding a third solution, however, has stumped expert number theorists for decades, and in 1953 the puzzle prompted pioneering mathematician Louis Mordell to ask the question: Is it even possible to know whether other solutions for 3 exist?
“This was sort of like Mordell throwing down the gauntlet,” says Sutherland. “The interest in solving this question is not so much for the particular solution, but to better understand how hard these equations are to solve. It’s a benchmark against which we can measure ourselves.”