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