The Problem of Catalan

The Problem of Catalan by Yuri F. Bilu, Yann Bugeaud, Maurice Mignotte.

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 this book we give a complete and (almo...

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Main Authors: Bilu, Yuri F. (Author), Bugeaud, Yann (Author), Mignotte, Maurice (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Number theory.
Algebra.
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