Catalan's Conjecture
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 this spectacular result in a way that is accessible to the advanced undergraduate. The author dissects b...
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 this spectacular result in a way that is accessible to the advanced undergraduate. The author dissects b...
