Re: goldbach conjecture question from an amateur

On Apr 28, 11:22 pm, prof <rbmad...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Why was/has  Fermat's Last Theorem received so much more publicity and
interest over the years than Goldbach's conjecture? The publicity,
discussions,and research given to FLT dominates what is given to GC.
Why is that???

I'd say the most likely reasons are: Fermat's claim that he had an
ingenious proof of the theorem (which seemed reasonably plausible,
since he was a great mathematician and had a tendency not to publish
proofs that he had found), and the fact that over the years
significant progress had been made bit by bit, including at least one
time where a top mathematician of his time believed that a proof had
been found.
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