Chen's theorem (1 + 2)
Teorema de Chen (1 + 2)
- Date
- 1966 (anuncio) / 1973 (demostración) · confidence high
- Place
- Institute of Mathematics (CAS), Beijing, China
- Credited to
- Chen Jingrun
- People
- 👤 Chen Jingrun1933–1996
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
Every sufficiently large even number is the sum of a prime and a number that is either prime or the product of two primes. It is the closest result to Goldbach's conjecture proved to date.
What it led to
- advances in sieve methods
- popularity of mathematics in post-1978 China