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Christian Goldbach

1690 - 1764

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Christian Goldbach ( GOHLD-bahk, German: [ˈkʁɪsti̯a(ː)n ˈɡɔltbax]; 18 March 1690 – 20 November 1764) was a Prussian mathematician connected with some important research mainly in number theory; he also studied law and took an interest in and a role in the Russian court. After traveling around Europe in his early life, he landed in Russia in 1725 as a professor at the newly founded Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Goldbach jointly led the academy in 1737. However, he relinquished duties in the academy in 1742 and worked in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs until his death in 1764. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Christian Goldbach is the 91st most popular mathematician (up from 102nd in 2019), the 156th most popular biography from Russia (up from 200th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Mathematician.

Christian Goldbach is most famous for his conjecture that every even number greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two prime numbers.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Christian Goldbach ranks 91 out of 1,004. Before him are Simon Stevin, Herbert A. Hauptman, Alexander Grothendieck, John Couch Adams, Thomas Harriot, and Stefan Banach. After him are Jim Simons, Leopold Kronecker, Frank P. Ramsey, Joan Clarke, L. E. J. Brouwer, and Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1690, Christian Goldbach ranks 1. After him are Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, Leonardo Vinci, Joseph Johann Adam, Prince of Liechtenstein, Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Ernst Johann von Biron, Francesco Maria Veracini, Nicolas Lancret, Victor Amadeus I, Prince of Carignano, Peter Tordenskjold, Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, and Patrona Halil. Among people deceased in 1764, Christian Goldbach ranks 5. Before him are Madame de Pompadour, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Ivan VI of Russia, and William Hogarth. After him are Pietro Locatelli, Jean-Marie Leclair, Johann Mattheson, Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Erik Pontoppidan, William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, and Francesco Algarotti.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Christian Goldbach ranks 156 out of 3,761. Before him are Vasili III of Russia (1479), Alla Pugacheva (1949), Vladimir Vysotsky (1938), Anna Pavlovna of Russia (1795), Ivan Bunin (1870), and Feodor II of Russia (1589). After him are Raisa Gorbacheva (1932), Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884), Semyon Budyonny (1883), Lyudmila Putina (1958), Patriarch Kirill of Moscow (1946), and Genrikh Yagoda (1891).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Christian Goldbach ranks 6. Before him are David Hilbert (1862), Georg Cantor (1845), Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850), Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792), and Andrey Kolmogorov (1903). After him are Grigori Perelman (1966), Leonid Kantorovich (1912), Alexander Friedmann (1888), Andrey Markov (1856), Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857), and Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (1943).

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