Preda V. Mihăilescu (born 23 May 1955) is a Romanian mathematician, best known for his proof of the 158-year-old Catalan's conjecture. Born in Bucharest...

mathematician Eugène Charles Catalan in 1844 and proven in 2002 by Preda Mihăilescu at Paderborn University. The integers 23 and 32 are two perfect powers...

fencer Preda Mihăilescu (born 1955), Romanian mathematician Vintilă Mihăilescu (1951–2022), Romanian cultural anthropologist Ștefan Mihăilescu-Brăila...

Studies and Public Administration. He was the brother of mathematician Preda Mihăilescu. He was born and grew up in the Buzești neighborhood of Bucharest....

the European Research Council. In 2002, the Romanian mathematician Preda Mihăilescu proved the Catalan conjecture, a number-theoretical conjecture, formulated...

Romanian archer Valentin Preda (born 1985), Romanian swimmer Virgil Preda (1923–2011), Romanian painter Preda Mihăilescu (born 1955), Romanian mathematician...

theorem (Ben J. Green and Terence Tao, 2004) Catalan's conjecture (Preda Mihăilescu, 2002) Erdős–Graham problem (Ernest S. Croot III, 2000) Lafforgue's...

Wieferich. Wieferich pairs play an important role in Preda Mihăilescu's 2002 proof of Mihăilescu's theorem (formerly known as Catalan's conjecture). There...

determine whether a given number is prime (the AKS primality test). 2002 – Preda Mihăilescu proves Catalan's conjecture. 2003 – Grigori Perelman proves the Poincaré...

1844 and was eventually proved in 2002, by the Romanian mathematician Preda Mihăilescu. He introduced the Catalan numbers to solve a combinatorial problem...