Friday, April 06, 2018

Talking Again about Another Conjecture of Goldbach

Here are the slides for a talk I am giving tomorrow at the MASON conference in Towson, MD. They are almost identical to the slides for the talk I gave last month at the SERMON conference.

I did, however, get some excellent questions last month that have changed the way I think about the problem, so I hope to incorporate those insights into the talk itself.

Thursday, March 08, 2018

Another Conjecture of Goldbach

Here are the slides for a talk I am giving this weekend at the SERMON conference in Johnson City, TN. The basic question addressed is as follows.

Look at all numbers a such that a2+1 is prime. (The sequence starts 1, 2, 4, 6, 10... ) Goldbach conjectured that any number (other than 1) in that sequence is the sum of two previous numbers.  So 2=1+1, 4=2+2, 6=2+4, 10=4+6, etc. We verify this for a up to 2*1014 and explore how easy it is to find these sums. This is joint work with Hester Graves.