Re: Goldbach and Levy conjectures

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Slightly OT, but talking of Goldbach,
> am I right in thinking that Vinogradov proved that
> every odd number n >= 7 is the sum of 3 primes?

No. He did prove this for all sufficiently large odd
numbers, but I don't think he even found an explicit
bound. Others have, but the number is much much larger
than 7.

> If I am right, why do we not hear more about Vinogradov's Theorem?
> Why is sci.math not filled with 1-page proofs?

I understand that the proof requires large amounts of machinery
from complex analysis.

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