Electronic Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

San Antonio, Texas, March 6-9, 2008

Paper C033

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Goldbach's 'Other' Conjecture - An Example of How Spreadsheets Can Be Used in Number Theory

Pat Rossi


Troy University

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ABSTRACT

The use of spreadsheets in investigating Goldbach's 'Other' Conjecture aptly illustrates the effectiveness of spreadsheets as a research tool - not only in the role of quickly exhausting all possible cases, but also in the role of revealing, in a very visual way, patterns that would otherwise remain hidden.

Keyword(s): number theory, spreadsheets