On Tue, 2 Oct 2012, Joseph Nebus wrote:
Bichitra Kalita, of the Assam Engineering College, claims to have
solved the Goldbach conjecture by way of graph theory:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/Mathematician-solves-270-year-old-conjecture/articleshow/16635760.cms
Jimmy Stewart beat her by 61 years...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Highway_in_the_Sky
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goldbach%27s_conjecture&diff=424955059&oldid=424893193
(long url because someone deleted the following paragraph):
In the movie No Highway in the Sky Jimmy Stewart character portrays a US
scientist concerned about metal fatigue in the new British aircraft. In an
early scene establishing his scientific background, he discusses the
"theory of numbers", mentioning that "in 1742 Goldbach postulated..
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