Christian Goldbach
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Christian Goldbach (March 18, 1690 - November 20, 1764), was a Prussian mathematician, who was born in Königsberg in East Prussia, as son of a pastor. Goldbach studied law and mathematics. He traveled widely throughout Europe and met with many famous mathematicians, such as Gottfried Leibniz, Leonhard Euler, and Nicholas I Bernoulli. He went to work at the newly opened St Petersburg Academy of Sciences and became tutor to the later Tsar Peter II.
Goldbach is remembered today for Goldbach's conjecture. He also studied and proved some theorems on perfect powers.
[edit] External links
- O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Christian Goldbach". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- Electronic copies of Euler's correspondence with Goldbach
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