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From: Archimedes Plutonium on 15 Jul 2010 06:57 I am just fresh off of proving infinitude of Mersenne primes by using the Indirect Euclid Infinitude of Primes proof method where W+1 and W-1 captures two new necessarily prime Euclid Numbers. So, fresh off of that experience led me tonight to think of Goldbach's Conjecture. Now let me recite some of my past history on working on the Goldbach Conjecture before I give this simple proof. I like to cite or recite the history because it shows us that if we are in a state of thinking about something, we can see what links were there to make the new thoughts. I thought I had proven the Goldbach Conjecture circa 1991 or thereabouts and set up partitions. Such as this partition for the number 8. 0 8 1 7 2 6 3 5 4 4 Now I set up partitions like that for all even numbers and the argument that I posed for a proof was that notice where the 3 and the 5 for 3+5 = 8. My proof argument was that one side of the partition had to contain a prime number as well as the other side due to a theorem that between n and 2n exists a prime number. Great so far, now all I needed was some way of saying that every even number had a prime lined up from one side that lines up with the prime on the second side, just like the 3 lines up with the 5 above. So I hunted around in 1991 and came up with the idea that I multiply those lined up numbers and that led me to the idea that if Goldbach was false, then composite numbers that had only two prime factors such as 3x5 = 15 that if Goldbach was false, then at least one number that is uniquely decomposed by the Fundamental theorem of Arithmetic into two prime factors does not exist. Well, that is alot of lining up and someone in sci.math in the 2000s pointed out that this was no proof. And I argeed with him. But tonight I offer a brand new attack. It retains some bits and pieces of my old attack. Proof of Goldbach Conjecture that every even number larger than 2 is the sum of two primes. Proof: This is an Algebra Proof and requires the translation of addition into multiplication. In other words, we replace addition by multiplication from the fancy Galois theory of Algebra of groups, rings, field etc. Every even number beyond 2 is decomposable by multiplication by at least two primes. So that 4 is 2 x 2, and that 6 is 2x3 and that 8 is 2 x 2 x 2. So hold on a minute here. The number 8 maybe strange looking but remember in Goldbach with addition that 4 = 2 + 2 to satisfy Goldbach. For Multiplication that 8 is 2 x 2 x 2 is no encumbrance to the idea that every even number has at least two prime factors, even though the number 8 has three prime factors. You see, I am switching into a Goldbach for addition to a Goldbach for multiplication and a Goldbach for multiplication would simply say that Every Even Number has at Least Two Prime Factors, but it probably has more in many cases. I am letting the Structure of Algebra to convert addition to the operator of multiplication. So, now, all I need is to note that Every Even Number must have at least two prime factors. That is obviously true, because every even number has "2" as a prime factor so then every even number must have another prime factor and thus must have At Least Two Prime Factors. Now, get the Algebra Galois Machinery or Framework and switch over from Multiplication to Addition. It is known from Algebra that the operators are interchangeable. So the proving mechanism boils down to this. If Goldbach is false, then there exists an even number larger than 2 which does not have two prime factors in multiplication. QED Comments: I have always felt that when a math conjecture is easy to communicate and easy to understand by almost anyone, that the proof of the conjecture must also be a simple idea proof. A conjecture such as Riemann Hypothesis which is inaccessible to anyone not a mathematician, would have a complex proof. But a conjecture that is accessible to grade-school children, then the proof of it in the end is as simple as it is accessible. However, in the above, the proof relies on Algebra theory that multiplication is interchangeable with addition, and that is a complex idea and theory and proof. Archimedes Plutonium http://www.iw.net/~a_plutonium/ whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |