Maurice Mignotte: 1 book
by Yann Bugeaud, Maurice Mignotte, Yuri F. Bilu
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
In 1842 the Belgian mathematician Eugène Charles Catalan asked whether 8 and 9 are the only consecutive pure powers of non-zero integers. 160 years after, the question was answered affirmatively by the Swiss mathematician of Romanian origin Preda Mihăilescu. In other words, 32 – 23 = 1 is the...
