Original: On 7 June, 1742, the Prussian mathematician Christian Goldbach wrote a letter to Leonhard Euler (letter XLIII)[ ] in which he proposed the following conjecture: Every integer greater than 2 can be written as the sum of three primes.
Simplified: On 7 June, 1742, the Prussian mathematician Christian Goldbach wrote a letter to Leonhard Euler (letter XLIII) [ ] in which he proposed the following conjecture: Every integer greater than 2 can be written as the sum of three primes.