Preda Mihăilescu
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Preda V. Mihăilescu (Template:IPA) (born 23 May 1955) is a Romanian mathematician, best known for his proof of the 158-year-old Catalan's conjecture.
Biography
Born in Bucharest,<ref name="stewart">Stewart 2013</ref> he is the brother of Vintilă Mihăilescu.
After leaving Romania in 1973, he settled in Switzerland.<ref name="stewart" /> He studied mathematics and computer science in Zürich, receiving a PhD from ETH Zürich in 1997.<ref>Campbell 2002</ref> His PhD thesis, titled Cyclotomy of rings and primality testing,<ref>Mihăilescu 1997.</ref> was written under the direction of Erwin Engeler and Hendrik Lenstra.
For several years, he did research at the University of Paderborn, Germany. Since 2005, he has held a professorship at the University of Göttingen.
Major research
In 2002, Mihăilescu proved Catalan's conjecture.<ref>Metsänkylä 2004.</ref><ref>Schoof 2008.</ref><ref>Bilu et al. 2014.</ref> This number-theoretical conjecture, formulated by the French and Belgian mathematician Eugène Charles Catalan in 1844, had stood unresolved for 158 years. Mihăilescu's proof appeared in Crelle's Journal in 2004.
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