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Joseph Oesterle
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French mathematician, a member of the Number Theory team at the Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu-Paris Rive Gauche, Sorbonne Universite, who with David Masser formulated the abc conjecture in 1985 while trying to understand the Szpiro conjecture about elliptic curves. Biographical detail beyond his current institutional affiliation was not found in a non-Wikipedia source available to this lane; his birth date is left unwritten rather than asserted from an unverified source.
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Birth YearYear-only precision; neither English Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, nor Wikidata give a day/month. Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionWith David Masser, formulated the abc conjecture in 1985, relating the prime factors of two coprime integers to those of their sum. 3 Notable WorkCo-formulated the abc conjecture with David Masser (1985), called the most important unsolved problem in Diophantine analysis. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Joseph Oesterle (Wikipedia)
1. Joseph Oesterle (Wikipedia)
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the abc conjecture which has been called the most important unsolved problem in diophantine analysis.
2. Oesterle, Faculty Page, Sorbonne Universite (IMJ-PRG)
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Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu - Paris Rive Gauche (IMJ-PRG)
3. Wolfram MathWorld
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The abc conjecture is a conjecture due to Oesterle and Masser in 1985.
3. Wolfram MathWorld
Wolfram Research, Inc.Conjectures Posed: ABC Conjecture, abc Conjecture entry, opening paragraphQuote, Conjectures Posed: ABC Conjecture, abc Conjecture entry, opening paragraph
The abc conjecture is a conjecture due to Oesterle and Masser in 1985.
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