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SUMMARY:Carl Pomerance (Dartmouth College)
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DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/NTWebSeminar
 /294/">The Erdős--Straus conjecture</a>\nby Carl Pomerance (Dartmouth Col
 lege) as part of Number Theory Web Seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nIn 1948 Erdős a
 nd Straus conjectured that for every\ninteger $n>1$\, the fraction $4/n$ i
 s equal to $1/a + 1/b + 1/c$\nfor some positive integers $a\, b\, c$.  Sti
 ll unsolved after\nnearly 80 years\, this curious conjecture has been stud
 ied\nby Sierpinksi\, Schinzel\, Mordell\, Vaughan\, Elsholtz \\& Tao\,\nan
 d many others.  This talk will review what is known and\ndiscuss some new 
 results.  (Joint work with Andreas Weingartner.)\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/NTWebSeminar/294/
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