Joseph Oesterlé

Joseph Oesterlé
Born	1954 (age 70–71) Alsace, France
Alma mater	Paris-Sud 11 University[1]
Known for	abc conjecture
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Pierre and Marie Curie University
Doctoral students	Loïc Merel

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".^[2][3]

He is a member of Bourbaki.^[4]

References

1. Joseph Oesterlé at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
2. Oesterlé „Travaux de Wiles II“, Seminar Bourbaki 1994/5 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
3. Oesterlé „Nouvelles approches de Theoreme de Fermat“, Seminar Bourbaki 1987/8, abc Conjecture Archived 2015-12-27 at the Wayback Machine
4. Maurice Mashaal (2006). Bourbaki: A Secret Society of Mathematicians. AMS. p. 17.

External links

• Joseph Oesterlé at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• The ABC conjecture
• Oesterlé on the origin of the abc Conjecture