Goldbach Conjecture/Marginal/Historical Note

Historical Note on Goldbach's Marginal Conjecture

Christian Goldbach first made this conjecture in $1742$ in a letter to Euler.

The marginal conjecture was written in the margin of this letter (hence its name).


Sources

  • 2008: Ian Stewart: Taming the Infinite ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $7$: Patterns in Numbers: Fermat
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