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All Diophantine Equations

This group gathers theorems about integer and rational solutions to polynomial equations, the oldest and broadest branch of number theory, together with the closely related theory of how well irrational numbers can be approximated by fractions. It includes landmark equations such as Fermat's Last Theorem, Pell's equation, and the Catalan and Ramanujan-Nagell equations, the classical technique of infinite descent used to rule out solutions, and the approximation results of Liouville, Thue, Roth, and Schmidt that grew out of the same questions about how closely a number can be pinned down by rationals.

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The word Diophantine refers to the Hellenistic mathematician of the 3rd century, Diophantus of Alexandria.
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