ABSTRACT
The most interesting thing about the number eight is that it is a cube (2 × 2 × 2), and the cubes are interesting and tough numbers. Since the time of the Greeks, who gave them their solid 3-D name, these numbers, which are the products of triple multiplication of the same number, have furnished the higher arithmetic with some of its most difficult problems. None has equaled in difficulty the problem that is today very simply the problem of the cubes. In that problem’s history, the number eight, in addition to being itself a cube, has been a very significant number.
