Christian Goldbach

Christian Goldbach (March 18, 1690 - November 20, 1764), was a Prussian mathematician, who was born in Królewiec (Königsberg), in Prussia, as son of a pastor. Goldbach studied law and mathematics. He traveled widely throughout Europe and met with many famous mathematicians, such as Leibniz, Leonhard Euler, and Nicholas I Bernoulli. Goldbach went to work at the newly opened St Petersburg Academy of Sciences and became tutor to the later Tsar Peter II.

Goldbach did important work in the mathematical field. He is remembered today for Goldbach's conjecture.He also studied and proved some theorems on perfect powers.

External links

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson. Christian Goldbach at the MacTutor archive.
• Electronic copies of Euler's correspondence with Goldbach