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specific-question Knuth's intuition that Goldbach might be unprovable - bumped recently. I was thinking whether goldbach-type-problems should be added - but the question seems to be more generally about various unprovable statements.
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Knuth's intuition that Goldbach's conjecture (every even number greater than 2 can be written as a sum of two primes) might be one of the statements that can neither be proved nor disproved really puzzles me. (See page 321 of http://www.ams.org/notices/200203/fea-knuth.pdf ) All the examples of ...
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