| Christian Goldbach | |
| Born | March 18, 1690 Königsberg |
|---|---|
| Died | November 20, 1764 |
| Fields | mathematics |
| Known for | Goldbach's conjecture |
Christian Goldbach (March 18, 1690 – November 20, 1764) was a Prussian mathematician who also studied law. Events 37 - The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius ' will and proclaims Caligula emperor Königsberg (Karaliaučius Low German: Königsbarg; Królewiec see also other names) was until 1946 the name of Kaliningrad. Events 284 - Diocletian was chosen as Roman Emperor. 762 - Bögü Khan of the Uyghurs, Year 1764 ( MDCCLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and Goldbach's conjecture is one of the oldest unsolved problems in Number theory and in all of Mathematics. Events 37 - The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius ' will and proclaims Caligula emperor Events 284 - Diocletian was chosen as Roman Emperor. 762 - Bögü Khan of the Uyghurs, Year 1764 ( MDCCLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Prussia ( Latin: Borussia, Prutenia; Prūsija Prūsija Prusy Old Prussian: Prūsa) was most recently a historic state A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and research is the field of Mathematics. Law is a system of rules enforced through a set of Institutions used as an instrument to underpin civil obedience politics economics and society He is remembered today for Goldbach's conjecture. Goldbach's conjecture is one of the oldest unsolved problems in Number theory and in all of Mathematics.
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Biography
Born in the Duchy of Prussia's capital Königsberg, part of Brandenburg-Prussia, Goldbach was the son of a pastor. The Duchy of Prussia or Ducal Prussia (Herzogtum Preußen Prūsijos kunigaikštystė Prusy Książęce was a Duchy in the eastern part of Prussia from Königsberg (Karaliaučius Low German: Königsbarg; Królewiec see also other names) was until 1946 the name of Kaliningrad. Brandenburg-Prussia (Brandenburg-Preußen was a German Monarchy established by the Personal union between the Duchy of Prussia and the He studied at the University of Königsberg and went on to work at the newly opened St Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1725. The University of Königsberg (Albertus-Universität Königsberg was the University of Königsberg, East Prussia. The Russian Academy of Sciences (Российская Академия Наук Rossi'iskaya Akade'miya Nau'k, shortened to PAH RAN) consists of the National Later on, he was a tutor to the later Tsar Peter II in 1728. Pyotr (Peter II Alekseyevich ( Russian: Пётр II Алексеевич or Pyotr II Alekseyevich) ( October 23, 1715 &ndash January In 1742 he entered the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs [1].
Contributions
Goldbach traveled widely throughout Europe and met with many famous mathematicians, such as Gottfried Leibniz, Leonhard Euler, and Nicholas I Bernoulli. Nicolaus Bernoulli (* October 21 1687 in Basel, † November 29 1759 in Basel sometimes also written Nicolas or Nikolas was a Swiss Mathematician; He is most noted for his correspondence with these mathematicians, especially in his 1742 letter to Euler stating his Goldbach's Conjecture. Goldbach's conjecture is one of the oldest unsolved problems in Number theory and in all of Mathematics. He also studied and proved some theorems on perfect powers, such as the Goldbach-Euler theorem, and made several notable contributions to analysis [1]. In Mathematics, a perfect power is a number that can be expressed as a power of some whole number above 1
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External links
- O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F. , “Christian Goldbach”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- Electronic copies of Euler's correspondence with Goldbach
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