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Mathematical Sciences

Computers and the proof of Goldbach's weak conjecture Seminar

Time:
14:30
Date:
7 November 2014
Venue:
Building 54 room 7035 (7B)

Event details

Pure Maths Colloquium

Last year, Helfgott published a proof of Goldbach's weak conjecture, i.e. that every odd number greater than 5 can be expressed as the sum of three primes. This relied in part on two substantial computations. I will outline the role played by these computations in that proof and how they were undertaken.

Speaker information

Dave Platt , University of Bristol. He is interested in algorithmic and analytic number theory

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