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Old 12-11-2008, 06:16 PM   #7
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Now what we need is for a genius to use the book and solve the 200-year old mystery of the Goldbach Conjecture. (Who knows, perhaps there's a hidden code?)

Christian Goldbach, an 18th century amateur mathematician noticed in 1742 that every even number above 4 is the sum of two primes.
So 8 is 5+3,
24 is 19+5, or 17+7. etc.

It's worked for every even number that has been tried. This is currently ≤ 10 to the power of 18.
But the mystery is that no-one has been able to find a proof of why it works. Prizes have been offered if someone solves the puzzle. So there's the Mystery of the Missing Proof.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbach's_conjecture
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