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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Main Author: Schoof, René. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edition:1st ed. 2008.
Series:Universitext,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-185-5

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