Mathematicians Come Closer to Solving Goldbach's Weak Conjecture

Re:Mathematicians Come Closer to Solving Goldbach's Weak Con... by Tycho on Saturday May 12, 2012 @03:03PM (#3964787)

> the youngest ever International Mathematical Olympiad gold medalist to date

I don't see how when he started dating is relevant here...

On a serious note, I find this puzzle far more interesting than Fermat's Last Thereom, even though it doesn't seem to be well known at all. Probably because it hasn't been solved and subsequently been the subject of TV documentaries, admittedly. Are there any other comparably simple/intuitive rules in mathematics that have never been fully proven?

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Re:Mathematicians Come Closer to Solving Goldbach's Weak Con... by adeelk on Saturday May 12, 2012 @04:38PM (#3965023)

Number theory is a good source of unsolved problems that don’t require much background to understand. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_ma...

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