Robert Tijdeman, born on 30 July 1943 in Oostzaan, North Holland, is a Dutch mathematician who specializes in number theory and is best known for Tijdeman's theorem, which states that there are at most a finite number of consecutive powers. He has been a professor of mathematics at Leiden University since 1975, was chairman of the department of mathematics and computer science at Leiden from 1991 to 1993, and was president of the Royal Dutch Mathematical Society from 1984 to 1986. He received his PhD in 1969 from the University of Amsterdam and an honorary doctorate from Kossuth Lajos University in 1999, and in 1987 he was elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Specializing in number theory, he is best known for his Tijdeman's theorem.
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The theorem was proven by Dutch number theorist Robert Tijdeman in 1976, making use of Baker's method in transcendental number theory to give an effective upper bound for x,y,m,n.
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