Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec

27 mars 2009 de 16 h 00 à 18 h 00 (heure de Montréal/HNE) Sur place

Undecidability in Number Theory

Colloque par Bjorn Poonen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Hilbert's Tenth Problem asked for an algorithm that, given a multivariable polynomial equation with integer coefficients, would decide whether there exists a solution in integers. Around 1970, Matiyasevich, building on earlier work of Davis, Putnam, and Robinson, showed that no such algorithm exists. But the answer to the analogous question with integers replaced by rational numbers is still unknown, and there is not even agreement among experts as to what the answer should be.

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