Seminar series
Date
Mon, 08 Mar 2021
Time
16:00 -
17:00
Location
Virtual
Speaker
Julia Stadlmann
Organisation
Oxford
In 1966 Chen Jingrun showed that every large even integer can be written as the sum of two primes or the sum of a prime and a semiprime. To date, this weakened version of Goldbach's conjecture is one of the most remarkable results of sieve theory. I will talk about the big ideas which paved the way to this proof and the ingenious trick which led to Chen's success. No prior knowledge of sieve theory required – all necessary techniques will be introduced in the talk.