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 p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schoof, René (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edición:1st ed. 2008.
Colección:Universitext,
Temas:
Number theory.
Universal algebra.
Mathematics.
Number Theory.
General Algebraic Systems.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo

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505 0 |a The Case "q = 2" -- The Case "p = 2" -- The Nontrivial Solution -- Runge's Method -- Cassels' theorem -- An Obstruction Group -- Small p or q -- The Stickelberger Ideal -- The Double Wieferich Criterion -- The Minus Argument -- The Plus Argument I -- Semisimple Group Rings -- The Plus Argument II -- The Density Theorem -- Thaine's Theorem. 
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