Mathematician:Christian Goldbach

Prussian amateur mathematician who also studied law and medicine.

Best known for posing the Goldbach Conjecture, which also appears as Goldbach's Marginal Conjecture, and a similar weaker conjecture known as Goldbach's Weak Conjecture.

Nationality
Prussian

History

 * Born: 18 March 1690, Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia)
 * 1710: Set off on a tour of Europe
 * 1711: Met Leibniz in Leipzig, started a correspondence
 * 1712: Met Nicolaus I Bernoulli and Abraham de Moivre in London
 * 1721: Met Nicolaus II Bernoulli in Venice
 * 1723: Started a correspondence with Daniel Bernoulli
 * 1724: Back home in Königsberg, met Georg Bernhard Bilfinger and Jakob Hermann
 * 1725: Took up positions of professor of mathematics and historian at St Petersburg Academy
 * 1728: Appointed tutor for Peter II of Russia, moved to Moscow
 * 1729: Began a correspondence with Euler
 * 1730: After death of Peter II, continues to serve the new empress Anna Ivanovna
 * 1732: Moved back to St Petersburg with Anna Ivanovna's court
 * 1732: Appointed as corresponding secretary to St Petersburg Academy
 * 1737: Responsible for administration of the St Petersburg Academy with J D Schuhmacher
 * 1740: Appointed to a senior position in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stopped working for St Petersburg Academy
 * 1760: Became a privy councillor, wrote guidelines for the education of royal children, which became official practice for a century
 * Died: 20 Nov 1764 in Moscow, Russia

Theorems and Definitions

 * Goldbach Conjecture
 * Goldbach's Marginal Conjecture


 * Goldbach's Weak Conjecture


 * Goldbach Partition
 * Goldbach Number
 * Goldbach Function
 * Goldbach's Comet

Books and Papers

 * 1720: Specimen methodi ad summas serierum
 * 1724: Exercitationes (Mathematical Exercises) (with Daniel Bernoulli)
 * 1729: De transformatione serierum
 * 1732: De terminis generalibus serierum