Waring's problem asks whether every natural number can be expressed as the sum of a bounded number of nth powers, depending only on n.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by multiple authoritative sources (Wikipedia, Britannica, MathWorld, PlanetMath) with consistent phrasing matching the claim.
Sources
- List of mathematics history topics (en.wikipedia.org)
- https://mathworld.wolfram.com/WaringsProblem.html (mathworld.wolfram.com)
- https://planetmath.org/waringsproblem (planetmath.org)