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Mordell’s conjecture

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  • Gerd Faltings
    In Gerd Faltings

    …for his proof of the Mordell conjecture. In 1922 Louis Mordell had conjectured that a system of algebraic equations with rational coefficients that defines an algebraic curve of genus greater than or equal to two (a surface with two or more “holes”) has only a finite number of rational solutions…

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  • Babylonian mathematical tablet
    In mathematics: Developments in pure mathematics

    …he solved the Englishman Louis Mordell’s conjecture in 1983. This conjecture states that almost all polynomial equations that define curves have at most finitely many rational solutions; the cases excluded from the conjecture are the simple ones that are much better understood.

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