Joseph Oesterlé
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Joseph Oesterlé is a French
mathematician
who, along with David Masser
, formulated the abc conjecture
in 1985. It is perhaps the most important unsolved problem in diophantine analysis.
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
who, along with David Masser
David Masser
David William Masser is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Basel, in Basel, Switzerland. He obtained his Ph.D. from University of Cambridge in 1974 on the topic of Elliptic Functions and Transcendence....
, formulated the abc conjecture
Abc conjecture
The abc conjecture is a conjecture in number theory, first proposed by Joseph Oesterlé and David Masser in 1985. The conjecture is stated in terms of three positive integers, a, b and c , which have no common factor and satisfy a + b = c...
in 1985. It is perhaps the most important unsolved problem in diophantine analysis.