Andrew Beal

Andrew Beal (born November 11, 1952 in Lansing , Michigan ) is an American entrepreneur and investor .

Life

Beal grew up in Lansing, Michigan and was a high school businessman repairing televisions, selling alarms, and working in the construction industry. He graduated from Michigan State University and Baylor University . As a real estate investor in the 1980s, he had a reputation for making money out of “hopeless” projects. In 1988 he founded his first bank in Dallas . The Beal Bank later belonged to his empire . In the 1990s he tried to expand his banking business in Russia and Mexico, but this was unsuccessful, so he concentrated again on the USA. Nor was he successful in the 1990s with a company that was supposed to put satellites into orbit (Beal Aerospace, founded in 1997, discontinued in 2000).

According to Forbes Magazine , Beal is one of the richest Americans (estimated at $ 8.4 billion in September 2012).

Beal is divorced with six children and lives in Dallas.

Known in the US as a high-stakes poker player who took the highest known daily win on a game in Las Vegas in 2004 ($ 11.7 million), he has also lost very large sums of money. To keep up with his stakes, a number of well-known professional poker players organized themselves into a group called The Corporation .

Beal's guess

Beal is an amateur mathematician and has awarded $ 1,000,000 in prize money for solving Beal's conjecture, which generalizes the great Fermat theorem . The Beal conjecture says that for all solutions of

${\displaystyle A^{m}+B^{n}=C^{k}}$      with   positive integers and ${\displaystyle A,B,C,\,m,n,k}$ ${\displaystyle m,n,k>2}$

the numbers have a common prime factor . ${\displaystyle A,B,C}$

Web links

• Forbes Magazine: Andrew Beal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Forbes Magazine: Andrew Beal
2. ↑ Andrew Beal, Compatible Poker
3. ^ Official website of the Beal conjecture