Re: Mersenne: interesting theorem

[Jukka Tapani Santala]

On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, William Stuart wrote:
> Another interesting thing about this conjecture...
> If it is correct, then there is no last prime.

That is a bit dangerous statement... because the proof that there are
infinite primes exist, and is quite separate from this conjecture.
Naturally, though, the opposite isn't true, so this doesn't mean the
conjecture neccessarily is true. In other words, this "interesting thing"
on the Goldbach conjecture is pretty useless. By the way, around here, the
university Algebra courses I've seen use this conjecture as the categorial
example of "still unsolven problems".

 -Donwulff