Joseph Oesterlé

Joseph Oesterlé
Born 1954 (age 61–62)
Alsace
Nationality France
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Pierre and Marie Curie University
Alma mater Paris-Sud 11 University[1]
Doctoral students Alain Kraus
Loïc Merel
Known for abc conjecture

Joseph Oesterlé (born 1954) 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.[2][3]

He is a member of Bourbaki.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Joseph Oesterlé at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ↑ Oesterlé „Travaux de Wiles II“, Seminar Bourbaki 1994/5
  3. ↑ Oesterlé „Nouvelles approches de Theoreme de Fermat“, Seminar Bourbaki 1987/8, abc Conjecture
  4. ↑ Maurice Mashaal (2006). Bourbaki: A Secret Society of Mathematicians. AMS. p. 17.

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