The Evolution of Genius: Every Night, I Get Smarter!

I woke up at 7 AM on Sunday, getting ready for our Boston Beach road trip scheduled for 10 AM.

I planned to rent a car and drive us there, but for now, I still had some time to kill.

So, before hitting the road, I fired up my PC to dig into the previous Riemann Hypothesis research by fellow mathematicians.

While at it, I checked my blog and was pleasantly surprised to find a new comment. I’ve had a couple of thank yous on my Memory Palace post, but this one was different.

Under my Riemann Hypothesis info post, the comment went like this:

’In 1974, Frohlich and Ivic undertook an attempt to establish the veracity of the Goldbach Conjecture.’

Then under this comment, the same guy answered himself for some reason.

’Subsequent evaluations of their methodology revealed flaws, principally attributed to the reliance on an unproven lemma. The insufficiency of this lemma led to the invalidation of their overall reasoning, but if proven, maybe this could go somewhere.’

Wait, hold up. This threw me for a loop. How did we end up in Goldbach territory when we were talking about the Riemann Hypothesis?

The Goldbach Conjecture is about expressing even numbers as the sum of two prime numbers.

Any even number greater than 2, that is.