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The author gives a wide panorama of the question of powers in arithmetic progression, which goes back to Fermat, Euler, Goldbach, \dots\ He also describes recent progress on this topic. Formally, the general equation which is studied is \[ (n+d_1d)\cdots (n+d_td)=by^\ell \] where \(d>0\), \(n>0\), \(k\geq 2\), \(t\geq2\) and \(r\in\{0,1\}\) are integers such that \(\gcd(n,d)=1\) and \(t=k-r\), and \(d_1<\cdots<d_t\) are integers in the range \([0,k)\) and \(\ell\) is prime. The proofs of the newest results depend on the elementary method of Erdős and Selfridge and the contributions of Wiles, Ribet and others on the Fermat equation. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0997.00017].