Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.

I'm Cody Gough.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you learn about a simple math problem that's never been solved.

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Let's satisfy some curiosity.

Some people run away the second they hear the phrase math problem.

But I promise, the story I'm about to tell you is

pretty easy to wrap your head around I'll admit that it does come from the world of

mathematics but how could you not be curious about a simple problem that's never been solved?

I'm talking about the Goldbach conjecture, and it's one of the oldest and best known

unsolved problems in all of mathematics.

But it's also a great example of something being

deceptively simple. So here's the story. In June of 1742, a Prussian

mathematician named Christian Goldbach wrote a letter to another mathematician,

Leonard E. Yes, that E, the guy who the irrational number E is named after.

But that's another story. Anyway, in this letter, Goldbach laid out his famous conjecture.

It was refined a bit over the years, but as of now it says this,

all even whole numbers greater than two are the sum of two prime numbers.

Or basically you can get any even number above two by adding up two prime numbers.

If you're really rusty on your math terminology, a prime

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