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

4 comments

• nhatcher 4 days ago
  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!
• 011101101 1 hour ago
  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.
• ljsprague 24 minutes ago
  "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."
• RonSFriedman86 4 days ago
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