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Joseph Oesterlé

French mathematician (born 1954)

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Joseph Oesterlé (born 1954) is a French mathematician who, along with David Masser, formulated the abc conjecture which has been called "the most important unsolved problem in diophantine analysis".

He is a member of Bourbaki.

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