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Goldbach's conjecture Math.
The hypothesis put forward by the German mathematician C. Goldbach (1690–1764) in 1742 (in a letter to a fellow mathematician, Euler) that every even number greater than 2 can be represented as the sum of two primes. Also Goldbach's hypothesis, Goldbach's theorem, etc.
1919L. E. Dickson Hist. Theory of Numbers I. xviii. 422 G. Cantor verified Goldbach's theorem up to 1000. 1941Courant & Robbins What is Math.? 31 Until recently, a proof of Goldbach's conjecture seemed completely inaccessible. 1949W. Kneale Probability §18. 79 The attitude of mathematicians..can..be expressed by..‘Goldbach's conjecture looks like a theorem, but it may conceivably be false’. 1960P. Suppes Axiomatic Set Theory vii. 217 Goldbach's Hypothesis..is false for ordinal numbers. 1965Phillips & Williams Inorg. Chem. I. i. 25 There still exist a number of very simple problems which have yet to find solutions. These include the four-colour problem, Goldbach's conjecture, and Fermat's last theorem. |