Joseph Oesterlé (born 1954) is a French mathematician who, along with
David Masser, formulated the
''abc'' conjecture which has been called "the most important unsolved problem in
diophantine analysis ''Diophantine'' means pertaining to the ancient Greek mathematician Diophantus. A number of concepts bear this name:
*Diophantine approximation
*Diophantine equation
*Diophantine quintuple
In number theory, a diophantine -tuple is a set of p ...
".
He is a member of
Bourbaki Bourbaki(s) may refer to :
Persons and science
* Charles-Denis Bourbaki (1816–1897), French general, son of Constantin Denis Bourbaki
* Colonel Constantin Denis Bourbaki (1787–1827), officer in the Greek War of Independence and serving in the ...
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References
External links
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The ABC conjectureOesterlé on the origin of the abc Conjecture
1954 births
Living people
People from Alsace
École Normale Supérieure alumni
20th-century French mathematicians
University of Paris alumni
French number theorists
Nicolas Bourbaki
Abc conjecture
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