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Goldbach's weak conjecture

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This version excludes 7 = 2+2+3 because this requires the even prime 2. On odd numbers larger than 7 it is slightly stronger as it also excludes sums like 17 = 2+2+13, which are allowed in the other formulation. Helfgott's proof covers both versions of the conjecture. Like the other formulation, this
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implies Goldbach's weak conjecture for all numbers. This result combines a general statement valid for numbers greater than 10 with an extensive computer search of the small cases. Saouter also conducted a computer search covering the same cases at approximately the same time.
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is still much too large to admit checking all smaller numbers by computer. (Computer searches have only reached as far as 10 for the strong Goldbach conjecture, and not much further than that for the weak Goldbach conjecture.)
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The weak conjecture is simply this statement restricted to the case where the integer is odd (and possibly with the added requirement that the three primes in the sum be odd).
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series in 2015, and has been undergoing further review and revision since; fully-refereed chapters in close to final form are being made public in the process.
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is large enough. The integer part of this number has 4,008,660 decimal digits, so checking every number under this figure would be completely infeasible.
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odd numbers can be expressed as the sum of three primes. Vinogradov's original proof, as it used the ineffective
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estimates sufficiently to unconditionally prove the weak Goldbach conjecture. Here, the major arcs
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released a proof of Goldbach's weak conjecture. The proof was accepted for publication in the
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Deshouillers, Jean-Marc; Effinger, Gove W.; Te Riele, Herman J. J.; Zinoviev, Dmitrii (1997).
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Tao, Terence (2014). "Every odd number greater than 1 is the sum of at most five primes".
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Correspondance mathématique et physique de quelques célèbres géomètres du XVIIIème siècle
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eliminated the dependency on the generalised Riemann hypothesis and proved directly (see
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Every odd number greater than 7 can be expressed as the sum of three odd primes.
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proved this without the Riemann Hypothesis; this improves both results.
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Helfgott, Harald A. (2013). "The ternary Goldbach conjecture is true".
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Every integer greater than 5 can be written as the sum of three primes.
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Electronic Research Announcements of the American Mathematical Society
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Letter from Goldbach to Euler dated on 7 June 1742 (Latin-German)
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showed every odd integer is a sum of at most five primes, under the
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Helfgott, Harald A. (2013). "Major arcs for Goldbach's theorem".
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Helfgott, Harald A. (2012). "Minor arcs for Goldbach's problem".
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Helfgott, Harald Andrés (2015). "The ternary Goldbach problem".
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one also immediately follows from Goldbach's strong conjecture.
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The conjecture originated in correspondence between
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greater than 5 can be expressed as the sum of three
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Index

Odd Goldbach conjecture

Number theory
Christian Goldbach
Harald Helfgott
Goldbach's conjecture
number theory
odd number
primes
conjecture
Goldbach's strong conjecture
Harald Helfgott
Annals of Mathematics Studies
Goldbach's conjecture
Christian Goldbach
Leonhard Euler
Hardy
Littlewood
generalized Riemann hypothesis
sufficiently large
Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov
Vinogradov's theorem
sufficiently large
Siegel–Walfisz theorem
Deshouillers
te Riele
generalized Riemann hypothesis
Olivier Ramaré
Leszek Kaniecki
Riemann Hypothesis

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