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I suspect that this is a question for Max, assuming that he still looks in on the site ?

I watched a film on TV a couple of nights ago, it was called X + Y and was about a boy and a Maths Olympiad.

There wasn't much maths in the film but this was a question that did appear on screen.

 

Are there an infinite number of integer pairs (m, n) with the property that both 

\(\displaystyle \frac {n^{2}+1}{m} \text{ and }\frac{m^{2}+1}{n}\)

are integers ?

 

I've fiddled around with it without really making any significant progress, a nudge in the right direction (but not a complete solution) would be good.

 
 May 19, 2021

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