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Joseph Oesterlé

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Nationality
  
France

Role
  
Mathematician

Notable students
  
Loic Merel

Name
  
Joseph Oesterle

Doctoral advisor
  
Don Zagier

Known for
  
abc conjecture

Fields
  
Mathematics


Joseph Oesterle httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Institutions
  
Pierre and Marie Curie University

Alma mater
  
Paris-Sud 11 University

Doctoral students
  
Alain Kraus Loic Merel

Education
  
University of Paris-Sud

Some simple open problems in mathematics by joseph oesterle


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.

He is a member of Bourbaki.

References

Joseph Oesterlé Wikipedia