Mathematician:Christian Goldbach

Mathematician

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.

Prussian

Born: 18 March 1690, Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia)
1710: Set off on a tour of Europe
1711: Met Gottfried Wilhelm von 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 Leonhard Paul 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

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