The Simple $1,000,000 Problem No One Can Solve

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0:00 What is Goldbach’s Conjecture?
4:33 Goldbach and Euler
7:03 The Prime Number Theorem
11:16 The Genius of Ramanujan
14:57 The Circle Method
27:31 Proving the Weak Goldbach Conjecture
32:40 Math vs Mao
36:06 Back to Chen Jingrun
37:15 How you can prove the Strong Goldbach Conjecture

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Writers: Casper Mebius & Derek Muller
Additional Writers: Darius Garewal, Callum Cuttle & Aakasha Bagga
Producer & Director: Casper Mebius
Editors: Jack Saxon & Peter Nelson
Camera Operators: Casper Mebius & Derek Muller
Animators: Fabio Albertelli, Emma Wright, Ivy Tello, Allama Nandii, Emma Foster, Mike Radjabov & Andrew Neet
Illustrators: Maria Gusakovich, Jakub Misiek & Caine Esperanza
Assistant Editor: James Stuart
Researchers: Darius Garewal, Geeta Thakur & Gabe Strong
Thumbnail Designers: Ren Hurley & Ben Powell
Production Team: Rob Beasley Spence, Tori Brittain, Casper Mebius & Gregor Čavlović
Advice & Feedback: Gregor Čavlović
Executive Producers: Derek Muller & Casper Mebius

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