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Revision as of 22:38, 2 August 2007 by Space Cadet (talk | contribs) (East Prussia originated in 1772.)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Christian Goldbach (March 18, 1690 – November 20, 1764) was a Prussian mathematician who also studied law. He is remembered today for Goldbach's conjecture.
Biography
Born in the Duchy of Prussia's capital Königsberg, part of Brandenburg-Prussia, Goldbach was the son of a pastor. He went to work at the newly opened St Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1725. Later on, he was a tutor to the later Tsar Peter the Great in 1728. In 1742 he entered the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs .
Contributions
Goldbach traveled widely throughout Europe and met with many famous mathematicians, such as Gottfried Leibniz, Leonhard Euler, and Nicholas I Bernoulli. He is most noted for his correspondence with these mathematicians, especially in his 1742 letter to Euler stating his Goldbach's Conjecture. He also studied and proved some theorems on perfect powers, and made several notable contributions to analysis .
References
- ^ Rosen, Kenneth H. (2004). Elementary Number Theory, Fifth Edition. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0321237072.
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Christian Goldbach", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- Electronic copies of Euler's correspondence with Goldbach
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