From: "Clive Tooth" Subject: Goldbach's Conjecture / Faber Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:47:25 -0000 Newsgroups: sci.math Summary: [missing] The publisher Faber is offering a one million dollar prize to anybody who can prove Goldbach's Conjecture within the next two years. This is to publicise a book "Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture" by Apostolos Doxiadis. http://barcelonareview.com/rev7_12/117_18.htm#Apostolos Reference: The Times, Thursday 16 March 2000, Section 2, pages 6&7. -- Clive Tooth http://www.pisquaredoversix.force9.co.uk/ End of document ============================================================================== From: "Clive Tooth" Subject: Re: Goldbach's Conjecture / Faber Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 10:53:20 -0000 Newsgroups: sci.math Robin Chapman wrote in message <8at0rp$7c9$1@nnrp1.deja.com>... >In article <8asv0k$1rd$1@mail.pl.unisys.com>, > "Clive Tooth" wrote: >> The publisher Faber is offering a one million dollar prize to anybody who >> can prove Goldbach's Conjecture within the next two years. This is to >> publicise a book "Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture" by Apostolos >> Doxiadis. >> http://barcelonareview.com/rev7_12/117_18.htm#Apostolos >> >> Reference: The Times, Thursday 16 March 2000, Section 2, pages 6&7. > >Does Fabber know what it might be getting into? :-) Maybe. To quote from The Times: "Faber has stipulated that the proof must be submitted to a respectable mathematical journal within two years of the book's publication next week, and published within four years. A panel of world-renowned mathematicians will be appointed to decide whether the proof is valid (Faber is refusing to disclose the panel's names, for fear that they will be flooded with letters from amateurs).". The complete story is at http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/03/16/timfeafea02004.html -- Clive Tooth http://www.pisquaredoversix.force9.co.uk/ End of document