René Goormaghtigh (1893 to 1960) was a Belgian engineer and industrial administrator who is known to mathematicians through the Goormaghtigh conjecture, which carries his name. Born in Ostend, he studied at Ghent University and gained a diploma in civil engineering from the Central Board of Le Havre in 1918. He worked as an engineer and industrial administrator for the rest of his life, was appointed advisor to the Société Générale de Belgique in 1952, and received the Order of Leopold II and the Order of the Crown. He was also a frequent contributor to mathematical journals, particularly the Belgian journal Mathesis. After a heart attack in 1958 he retired to Saint-André-des-Bruges, and he died in Ixelles in 1960.
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was a Belgian engineer, after whom the Goormaghtigh Conjecture is named
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In mathematics, the Goormaghtigh conjecture is a conjecture in number theory named for the Belgian mathematician René Goormaghtigh about the solutions of the exponential Diophantine equation x m − 1 x − 1 = y n − 1 y − 1 {\displaystyle {\frac {x^{m}-1}{x-1}}={\frac {y^{n}-1}{y-1}}} with distinct integers x , y {\displaystyle x,y} larger than one and exponents larger than two.
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