If the Goldbach conjecture were ever solved, what practical application would it bring? For those who don't know what it is, the Goldbach conjecture states every even integer greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes. It has never been proven.

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Anonymous Sat Aug 15 10:38:27 2015 No.7468078 [Reply] [Original]

If the Goldbach conjecture were ever solved, what practical application would it bring?

For those who don't know what it is, the Goldbach conjecture states every even integer greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes. It has never been proven.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 15 11:03:16 2015 No.7468100 >>7468078 I don't even know why knowing prime numbers is important. Sorry for being irrelevant other than giving you a bump.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 15 11:07:09 2015 No.7468104 encryption/? That's the only time I ever hear primes coming up in the real world, though it doesn't seem like it'll break RSA or anything

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 15 11:36:09 2015 No.7468144 >>7468078 math regarding the nature of math has applications mostly relating to computation, approximations, algorithms, etc not a lot of physical applications

Anonymous Sun Aug 16 10:31:33 2015 No.7469937

>>7468078
Knowing whether a conjecture like this is true or not doesn't advance mathematics much anon, the breakthroughs are in the new techniques used to produce the proof, which could have applications to other problems in number theory or algebraic geometry and maybe cryptography or whatever (unlikely tbh)

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