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L.G. Schnirelmann

 

L.G. Schnirelmann

Lev G. Schnirelmann was a Soviet mathematician who sought to prove Goldbach's conjecture. In 1931, using the Brun sieve, he proved that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than 300,000 primes.

See also: Schnirelmann density, Lyusternik-Schnirelmann category



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