Christian Goldbach
Christian Goldbach (born 18 March 1690, died 20 November 1764) was a Prussian mathematician. He is known for his Goldbach hypothesis.
He was born in Konigsberg, the capital of Prince Prussia, which was then part of Brandenburg-Prussia. He was the son of a pastor. In 1725 he undertook work at the newly opened Petersberg Academy of Sciences. He taught, among other things. future Russian Tsar Peter II. In 1742 he took charge of the Russian Foreign Ministry. He died in Moscow.
Goldbach has traveled extensively throughout Europe, encountering renowned mathematicians such as Leibniz, Leonard Euler and Nicholas I Bernoulli. The most famous is the correspondence with these mathematicians; In one of the letters addressed in 1742 to Euler he formulated his hypothesis in the field of number theory.
He was mainly involved in the field of mathematical analysis, as well as in the study of the great powers; in the latter field he proved several theorems.
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