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unusual facts about Goldbach conjecture



Double Mersenne number

In the Futurama movie The Beast with a Billion Backs, the double Mersenne number M {M 7} is briefly seen in "an elementary proof of the Goldbach conjecture".


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Goldbach's weak conjecture

In 2012 and 2013, Peruvian mathematician Harald Helfgott released a pair of papers claiming to improve major and minor arc estimates sufficiently to unconditionally prove the weak Goldbach conjecture.