Etymology

Szpiro's conjecture

Today it means: A conjecture relating to the conductor and the discriminant of an elliptic curve, equivalent in a slightly modified form to the abc conjecture. Full definition →

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Named for Lucien Szpiro, who formulated it in the 1980s.

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