Goldbachs conjecture

Goldbach's Conjecture is one of the oldest unsolved problems in number theory and in all of mathematics. It was first described in a letter written by Christian Goldbach to Leonhard Euler in 1742. It states:

Every even number greater than two can be written as the sum of two primes.

This conjecture has been researched by many number theorists and has been checked by computer for even numbers up to 4 × 10¹⁴. The majority of mathematicians believe that the conjecture is true, mostly based on statistical considerations focusing on the probabilistic distribution of prime numbers: the bigger the even number, the more "likely" it becomes that it can be written as a sum of two primes. We know that every even number can be written as the sum of at most six primes, and in 1966, Chen showed that every sufficiently large even number can be written as the sum of a prime and a number with at most two prime factors.

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External links:

• [Information and references about the Goldbach Conjecture]
• [Information on the $1 million dollar award for proving Goldbach's Conjecture]