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Goldbach Conjecture Disproved Research
By overconvergent
Posted Fri Apr 01, 2005 at 01:00:48 AM PDT
In an email message today to the Number Theory mailing list, a counterexample to the Goldbach Conjecture - that every even number bigger than 2 can be written as the sum of two prime numbers - was announced. The method is said to involve the Hardy-Littlewood circle method and to use a magma computation that took several weeks to complete. (The actual, "marvellous" counterexample is too big to fit into this posting).

A senior number theorist said, under the condition of anonymity, "we're in shock. No-one saw this coming."

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Please note that I posted this on the 1st of April (local time).
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[new] Another (somewhat) math related April 1st.... (none / 0) (#1)
by jvano on Fri Apr 01, 2005 at 09:25:34 AM PDT

... here.


[new] Goldbach Conjecture (none / 0) (#2)
by Vanes63 on Tue Apr 05, 2005 at 06:00:17 PM PDT

Don't feel as though I'm calling you out or anything, but I'm sure we've all heard of someone posting something or giving a "counterexample" on April Fools day as an April Fools joke. If you have some info on this, please post more as those who are hungry for this type of information would like to know if there IS a counterexample. I searched the web briefly and found nothing. I hope you enlighten me. Thanks, - Vanes. P.S. The very clever portion that reads: "The Actual, 'marvellous' counterexample is too big to fit into this posting" sounds very Fermat-like...



[new] Fool's day (none / 0) (#8)
by Anonymous Hero on Mon Jul 04, 2005 at 11:59:44 AM PDT

This is obviously a joke... I admit that the final sentence "The actual, "marvellous" counterexample is too big to fit into this posting" is clever. If you like, check the Number Theory Mailing List mentioned above at : http://listserv.nodak.edu/archives/nmbrthry.html Nikolas Karalis


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