Abstract
In this book, we present Preda Mihăilescu’s beautiful proof of the conjecture made by Eugène Charles Catalan in 1844 in a letter [11] to the editor of Crelle’s journal.
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Schoof, R. (2008). Introduction. In: Catalan's Conjecture. Universitext. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-185-5_1
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