Seminar series
Date
Fri, 16 Nov 2018
Time
14:00 -
15:00
Location
L1
Speaker
Prof Ben Green
The Goldbach conjecture is a famous unsolved problem in mathematics. It asks whether every even number greater than or equal to 4 is the sum of two primes. I will discuss some of the history of the problem, explaining among other things why the answer is surely yes, and also why this appears to be very hard to prove.