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18th November
On this day in
1752
,
Christian Goldbach
wrote to
Euler
conjecturing that any odd number could be written in the form
2
n
2
+
p
2n^2 + p
2
n
2
+
p
where
p
is prime. A counterexample was found in
1856
.
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