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minus-squareGogo Sempai@programming.devtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What are the most mindblowing things in mathematics?linkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-23 years agoGoldbach’s Conjecture: Every even natural number > 2 is a sum of 2 prime numbers. Eg: 8=5+3, 20=13+7. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbach’s_conjecture Such a simple construct right? Notice the word “conjecture”. The above has been verified till 4x10^18 numbers BUT no one has been able to prove it mathematically till date! It’s one of the best known unsolved problems in mathematics. linkfedilink
Goldbach’s Conjecture: Every even natural number > 2 is a sum of 2 prime numbers. Eg: 8=5+3, 20=13+7.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbach’s_conjecture
Such a simple construct right? Notice the word “conjecture”. The above has been verified till 4x10^18 numbers BUT no one has been able to prove it mathematically till date! It’s one of the best known unsolved problems in mathematics.