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Gerd Faltings, who proved the Mordell conjecture, wins the Abel Prize

47 pointsby digital55last Thursday at 7:12 PM6 commentsview on HN

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nhatcherlast Thursday at 11:49 PM

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!

011101101today at 5:32 AM

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.

ljspraguetoday at 6:49 AM

"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."

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RonSFriedman86last Thursday at 9:21 PM

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