Goldbach conjecture: Quick Facts

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number theory parity Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture Riemann hypothesis twin prime conjecture prime number theorem amicable numbers Fermat’s last theorem perfect number Chinese remainder theorem Diophantine equation Fermat’s theorem

Key People

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Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov

Soviet mathematician

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Christian Goldbach

Russian mathematician