Goldbach Conjecture/Marginal
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Goldbach's Marginal Conjecture
Every integer greater than $5$ can be written as the sum of three primes.
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Source of Name
This entry was named for Christian Goldbach.
Historical Note
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