| ▲ | Gerd Faltings, who proved the Mordell conjecture, wins the Abel Prize(scientificamerican.com) | |
| 33 points by digital55 5 days ago | 3 comments | ||
| ▲ | nhatcher 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
Oh wow! I wouldn't have expected this so many years later. Mordel's conjecture implies asva special case that for all n>=4 there are only a finite number of solutions to Fermat's equations with relative prime numbers. Brings me back! | ||
| ▲ | 011101101 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
A point is that which has no breadth. The line is a breadthless legth. Mordell conjecture is that only circles or figure contain infinite points, whereas curves with exponents over 3 are finite accumulations. | ||
| ▲ | ljsprague 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
"He proved that if a curve’s equation has a variable raised to a power higher than 3, then it must have a finite number of [rational] points." | ||