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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

The weak Goldbach conjecture is settled.

Quoting Terry  Tao: "Busy day in analytic number theory; Harald Helfgott has complemented his previous paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.5252 (obtaining minor arc estimates for the odd Goldbach problem) with major arc estimates, thus finally obtaining an unconditional proof of the odd Goldbach conjecture that every odd number greater than five is the sum of three primes. "

2 comments:

Mike said...

This is great news. Means the rest of us will have to wrestle with the binary one.

Liviu Nicolaescu said...

At least, there is something left to do.