This blog's July 20 posting featured work from poets who have spouses or siblings who are mathematicians. Today, introducing the work of Michele Battiste (who considers Goldbach's conjecture), we again honor that theme. Goldbach's conjecture asserts that every even integer greater than 2 can be expressed as a sum of two prime integers. For example, 4 = 2 + 2, 6 = 3 + 3, 8 = 3 + 5, 10 = 7 + 3 or 5 + 5, and so on. The conjecture was first proposed in 1742 by German mathematican Christian Goldbach in a letter to Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler -- and in 2010--though it has been verified for many, many, many even integers--it still remains unproved.
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
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