Catalan's Conjecture
Eugène Charles Catalan made his famous conjecture – that 8 and 9 are the only two consecutive perfect powers of natural numbers – in 1844 in a letter to the editor of Crelle’s mathematical journal. One hundred and fifty-eight years later, Preda Mihailescu proved it. Catalan’s Conjecture presents thi...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Springer London : Imprint: Springer,
2008.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2008. |
| Series: | Universitext,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-185-5 |