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Paperback The Problem of Catalan Book

ISBN: 3319362550

ISBN13: 9783319362557

The Problem of Catalan

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In 1842 the Belgian mathematician Eug?ne 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 only solution of the equation xp - yq = 1 in integers x, y, p, q with xy 0 and p, q >= 2.

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