Who's Who in Goldbach Research
A directory of researchers working on the Goldbach conjecture
Christian Goldbach (1690-1764) conjectured in a 1742 letter to Leonhard Euler that every even integer greater than 2 is the sum of two primes. The conjecture is still open.
This site is a reference directory of the researchers most active on the Goldbach conjecture and adjacent problems in additive prime number theory. It catalogs the Top 100, ranked from arXiv preprint output, OpenAlex citation data, and zbMATH classifications, gives their institutions, and provides a curated reading list of recent short papers.
Where to start
- Home: This page.
- The Top 100: the canonical ranked list, sortable and filterable in your browser.
- Locations: where the Top 100 are based, shown by world region with maps.
- Institutions: the institutions ranked three ways: where the Top 100 work today, where they earned their PhDs, and a canonical blend of the two.
- In Memoriam: researchers in this directory who are no longer with us.
- Genealogy: close relations of the Top 100 through advisor-student lineage in the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- Six Degrees: the coauthorship graph among the Top 100: who has written papers with whom, and how few steps separate any two of them.
- Reading List: the recent topical papers ranked by the prominence of their authors in this directory, plus the most-cited papers of all time.
- Overlap: the researchers who also appear across the related conjecture sites.
- About: what this site is, who built it, and where to find the methodology, the open dataset, and how to request a correction.