Goldbach conjecture

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Topics

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

Key People

Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov

Soviet mathematician

Christian Goldbach

Russian mathematician