Roger Frye
Collaborations and Research
in computational mathematics and complexity science

Some of my more enjoyable collaborations in mathematical computations have been

In these efforts I have exploited the power of supercomputers and networks of workstations, or the computational features of mathematical software packages in order to test the implications of hypotheses. These explorations have found solutions or contradictions and have often encouraged my collaborators to complete formal proofs.

My discovery of the smallest counter-example to Euler's Conjecture was published in

Supercomputing 88: Science and Applications
Edited by Joanne L. Martin and Stephen F. Lundstrom, page 106
"Finding 958004 + 2175194 + 4145604 = 4224814 on the Connection Machine".
(Download Postscript 187KB)

The discovery was reported in the New York Times (April 17, 1988, page 28) and has been cited in several books, including Concrete Mathematics by Graham, Knuth, and Patashnik (page 131) and A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram (page 945, top of column 2).


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