The Independent - London, March 16th, 2002
IF YOU have a brainwave while reading this article and solve one of the simplest, yet most maddening, mathematical problems of all time - you're too late. Midnight last night was the deadline for entries to win a million dollars (pounds 625,000).
All you had to do was to send a solution for the "Goldbach Conjecture" to the publisher Faber and Faber, whichtwo years ago challenged Britons and Americans to prove, or disprove, the idea.
The Conjecture, dreamt up in 1742 by Christian Goldbach, suggests that every even number greater than 2 is the sum of two prime numbers. Thus 4 = 1 + 3, 16 = 11+...
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