Joseph Oesterlé Explained

Joseph Oesterlé
Birth Place:	Alsace, France
Fields:	Mathematics
Workplaces:	Pierre and Marie Curie University
Alma Mater:	Paris-Sud 11 University
Doctoral Students:	Loïc Merel
Known For:	abc conjecture

Joseph Oesterlé (born 1954) is a French mathematician who, along with David Masser, formulated the abc conjecture which has been called "the most important unsolved problem in diophantine analysis".^{[1] [2]}

He is a member of Bourbaki.^[3]

External links

• • The ABC conjecture
• Oesterlé on the origin of the abc Conjecture

Notes and References

1. http://www.numdam.org/numdam-bin/fitem?id=SB_1994-1995__37__333_0 Oesterlé „Travaux de Wiles II“, Seminar Bourbaki 1994/5
2. http://www.numdam.org/numdam-bin/fitem?id=SB_1987-1988__30__165_0 Oesterlé „Nouvelles approches de Theoreme de Fermat“, Seminar Bourbaki 1987/8, abc Conjecture
3. Book: Maurice Mashaal. Bourbaki: A Secret Society of Mathematicians. AMS. 2006. 17.