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This was, along with Ben Gershon's proof that \\(3^{m} - 2^{n} = 1\\) admits exactly (and only) the same nontrivial solution, the only special case known when Catalan formulated his famous conjecture.  The paper under review starts with an overview of various approaches to the equation under consideration and gives a new proof based on a long case distinction. The hardest cases lead to some special cases of Pell's equation, as one would expect from Chao Ko's proof that \\(x^{2}-y^{q}=1\\) admits no nontrivial solution except (1). 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