http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~desmit/ic/abc/fritsABCpresentation.pdf <== quelques infos sur le projet ABC@home
What is ABC@home? ABC@home is a distributed computing project enabling a great search for so called abc-triples. The project is comparable in a way to GIMPS, another mathematical project. These abc-triples are positive integers a,b,c such that a+b=c, a < b < c, a,b,c have no common divisors and c > rad(abc), the so-called radical of abc. The ABC conjecture says that there are only finitely many a,b,c such that log(c)/log(rad(abc)) > h for any real h > 1. The ABC conjecture is currently one of the greatest open problems in mathematics. If it is proven to be true, a lot of other open problems can be answered directly from it. More information can be found here .
Who is involved?The mathematical institute of Leiden University together with Kennislink, a dutch institute to promote science. The science group that constructed a new algorithm to find these abc-triples consists of prof. HW. Lenstra jr, dr. B. de Smit, drs. WJ. Palenstijn. Lenstra and de Smit previously worked on completing a lithograph of Escher.
ABC@home is completely non-profit and only for educational purposes. The project will start in January, however you can join ABC@home beta and find those triples today! You will once the project starts automatically be a part of ABC@home.