Re: Conventions that don't suck?

Paul Ciszek <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yeah; I thought it had been done for Goldbach's conjecture, but it
turns out that only the "weak" Goldbach conjecture--that every odd
integer can be expressed as a sum of three primes--has been shown
to apply to all "sufficiently large" odd numbers.

It's interesting how difficult such seemingly simple problems can be.
I recently learned Dirichlet's proof that there is no highest prime
congruent to A mod B if A and B have no factors in common -- for
instance no highest prime ending in 9, or in 93. It's mind-blowing.
It involves infinite sums and infinite products of complex numbers.

Interstingly, Dirichlet married the compose Felix Mendelssohn's sister.
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