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Kieren MacMillan
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I’m a composer, music director, and educator. I do number theory as a hobby. I’ve had over a dozen number theory papers published in peer-reviewed journals (American Mathematical Monthly, Elemente der Mathematik, INTEGERS, etc.).

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Surprising identities / equations
Sep 16, 2014
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Does this system of simultaneous Pell-like equations have any non-trivial positive integer solutions?
Nov 22, 2014
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Does an elementary solution exist to $x^2+1=y^3$?
Nov 9, 2014
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Surprising identities / equations
Jun 25, 2014
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Pell number factorization and divisibility question
Aug 25, 2017
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A Pell equation inside a Pell equation
Apr 29, 2014
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Solve $x^2+2=y^3$ using infinite descent?
Sep 8, 2014
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Solving $X^2-6Y^2=Z^3$ in positive integers
Jul 2, 2021
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How does one attack a divisibility problem like $(a+b)^2 \mid (2a^3+6a^2b+1)$?
Oct 24, 2013
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Does the Pell-like equation $X^2-dY^2=k$ have a simple recursion like $X^2-dY^2=1$?
Mar 29, 2016
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Is it bad form to answer a question using someone else's previous comment(s)?
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Is a question about "Best books/papers on X" appropriate?
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What to do about these trivial edits? (http → https)
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Should I remove a link if given an external request?
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Different method for the same question = different post?
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Is there an online encyclopedia of Diophantine equations (OEDE)?
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Finding integer points on elliptic curves via divisibility conditions like $(a+b)^2 \mid (2b^3+6ab^2-1)$
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Are [Wieferich] primes the only solutions to the equation $2^{k-1} \equiv 1 \pmod{k^2}$?
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Solving the quartic equation $r^4 + 4r^3s - 6r^2s^2 - 4rs^3 + s^4 = 1$
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Fermat's proof for $x^3-y^2=2$

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