Is (n,m)=(18,7) the only positive solution to n^2 + n + 1 = m^3 ? It's hard to do a Google search on this problem.
If I was using Maple correctly, there are no other positive solutions with n at most 10000.
I know some of these Diophantine questions succumb to known methods, and others are extremely difficult to answer.
 A: Let $\omega$ be a third root of unity, then $\mathbb{Z}[\omega]$ is a PID.
We have $m^3 = n^2 + n + 1 = (n-\omega)(n-\omega^2)$.
$\gcd(n-\omega,n-\omega^2) = \gcd(n-\omega,\omega-\omega^2) \mid (1-\omega)$, and $(1-\omega)$ is the ramified prime lying over $3$ in $\mathbb{Z}[\omega]$, so from unique factorization of $m^3$ we get that either $(n-\omega)$ and $(n-\omega^2)$ are both roots of unity times cubes, or one is a root of unity times $(1-\omega)$ times a cube and the other is a root of unity times $3$ times a cube. In the second case, $m$ is a multiple of $3$, but then $n^2 + n + 1 \equiv 0 \mod 9$, which is impossible.
If $(n-\omega)$ and $(n-\omega^2)$ are cubes, say $a^3$ and $\bar{a}^3$, then their difference $\omega^2-\omega$ is $a^3-\bar{a}^3 = (a-\bar{a})(a^2+a\bar{a}+\bar{a}^2)$. Thus $a-\bar{a}$ is either a root of unity or a root of unity times $(1-\omega)$, and it must be the latter since $a-\bar{a}$ is pure imaginary. Thus $\Im a \le \Im (\omega-\omega^2) = \sqrt{3}$. The same argument applied to $\omega a$ shows that $\Im \omega a \le \sqrt{3}$, and similarly for other roots of unity times $a$, so $a$ is in a hexagon around the origin that is contained in a circle of radius $2$ around the origin, i.e. $|a| \le 2$, so $m = |a|^2 \le 4$. which doesn't give us any solutions.
Finally we have the case that one of $(n-\omega), (n-\omega^2)$ is of the form $\omega a^3$. Then we have $\pm(\omega^2-\omega) = \omega a^3 - \omega^2 \bar{a}^3$. Write $a = x+y\omega$. Then $\omega a^3 - \omega^2 \bar{a}^3 = (\omega-\omega^2)(x^3+y^3-3x^2y)$, so we have $x^3+y^3-3x^2y = \pm 1$, which is a Thue equation. One solution is $x = -1, y = 2$, leading to the solution $n = 18, m = 7$.
Edit: Mathematica claims that the only solutions to $x^3+y^3-3x^2y = 1$ are $(x,y) = (-2, -3), (-1, -1), (-1, 2), (0, 1), (1, 0), (3, 1)$. Mathematica's documentation says it computes an explicit bound on the size of a solution to a Thue equation based on the Baker-Wustholz theorem in order to solve it, and in this case it seems like the bound was small enough.
A: This is an old question, and has already been well-answered, but what I've got to say is slightly too long for a comment...
The equation $x^2+x+1 = y^3$ is of interest to finite geometers because $x^2+x+1$ is the number of points (and lines) in a finite projective plane of order $x$.
People have mentioned Ljunggren's name in comments above. The paper that's relevant is this:

Ljunggren, Wilhelm
  Einige Bemerkungen über die Darstellung ganzer Zahlen durch binäre kubische Formen mit positiver Diskriminante. (German)
  Acta Math. 75, (1943). 1–21. 

I heartily recommend the Mathscinet review of that article, which says (amongst other things)...
... that Nagell [Norsk Mat. Forenings Skr. (I) no. 2 (1921)] proved that the equation 

(1) $x^2+x+1=y^n$ 

has only trivial solutions unless $n$ is a power of $3$...
...  And that Ljunggren then proved that (1) has only two nontrivial solutions, namely (18,7) and (-19, 7), for n=3. 
A: I realise this is a massive revival/refresh of this question, but I just found a completely elementary solution of this problem, outlined in this MSE question and my own answer.
Does anyone know if there are other completely elementary solutions?
A: sage: E = EllipticCurve([0,0,1,0,-1])
sage: E
Elliptic Curve defined by y^2 + y = x^3 - 1 over Rational Field
sage: E.integral_points()
[(1 : 0 : 1), (7 : 18 : 1)]
