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Major arcs for Goldbach's theorem
- csl 13y agoCan anyone in the know give an opinion on the claimed proof? I see Wikipedia has already been updated: Considerable work has been done on the weak Goldbach conjecture culminating in a 2013 claimed proof by Harald Helfgott. Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbachs_conjecture#Rigorous_results http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbachs_conjecture#Rigorous_r... For the casual reader, there is a great novel by Apostolos Doxiadis based around Goldbach's conjecture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Petros_and_Goldbach%27s_Conjecture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Petros_and_Goldbach%27s_C... (Doxiadis's "Logicomix" is also recommended)
- tzs 13y agoTerry Tao's comments on this: https://plus.google.com/u/0/114134834346472219368/posts/8qpSYNZFbzC https://plus.google.com/u/0/114134834346472219368/posts/8qpS... Mathoverflow discussion: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/130545 http://mathoverflow.net/questions/130545
- ColinWright 13y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5703681 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5703681