Joseph Oesterlé
Joseph Oesterlé | |
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Born | 1954 (age 66–67) |
Nationality | France |
Alma mater | Paris-Sud 11 University[1] |
Known for | abc conjecture |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Pierre and Marie Curie University |
Doctoral students | Loïc Merel |
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".[2][3]
He is a member of Bourbaki.[4]
References[]
- ^ Joseph Oesterlé at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Oesterlé „Travaux de Wiles II“, Seminar Bourbaki 1994/5 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Oesterlé „Nouvelles approches de Theoreme de Fermat“, Seminar Bourbaki 1987/8, abc Conjecture Archived 2015-12-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Maurice Mashaal (2006). Bourbaki: A Secret Society of Mathematicians. AMS. p. 17.
External links[]
- Joseph Oesterlé at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- The ABC conjecture
- Oesterlé on the origin of the abc Conjecture
Categories:
- 1954 births
- Living people
- People from Alsace
- École Normale Supérieure alumni
- 20th-century French mathematicians
- University of Paris alumni
- Number theorists
- Nicolas Bourbaki
- French mathematician stubs