Catalan's Conjecture

• Main Author: Schoof, René (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: Universitext,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Algebra.; Number theory.; Number Theory.; General Algebraic Systems.; Mathematics, general.

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 presents thi...