Goldbach Conjecture - Numberphile
Professor David Eisenbud on the famed Goldbach Conjecture. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Extra footage from this interview: https://youtu.be/7D-YKPMWULA Prime Playlist:...
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(Speaking German) That means that a given number is the sum of two primes. I hold it for a completely certain result. Looking aside from the fact that I can't, myself, prove it. So we're talking about Goldbach's Conjecture. One of the real old chestnuts of mathematics. Christian Goldbach was born in 1690 in Königsberg, now part of Russia. And he was a fairly serious mathematician. But his great moment of fame came in a correspondence with Leonard Euler, who was really one of the great mathematicians of all time. And in a letter that he wrote to Euler, on the seventh of June in 1742. In that letter, Goldbach proposed this conjecture, which got sort of ironed out after a few rounds. But it is a famous conjecture now which says that every...
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(Speaking German) That means that a given number is the sum of two primes. I hold it for a completely certain result. Looking aside from the fact that I can't, myself, prove it. So we're talking about Goldbach's Conjecture. One of the real old chestnuts of mathematics. Christian Goldbach was born in 1690 in Königsberg, now part of Russia. And he was a fairly serious mathematician. But his great moment of fame came in a correspondence with Leonard Euler, who was really one of the great mathematicians of all time. And in a letter that he wrote to Euler, on the seventh of June in 1742. In that letter, Goldbach proposed this conjecture, which got sort of ironed out after a few rounds. But it is a famous conjecture now which says that every...
