In Popular Culture
- To generate publicity for the novel Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis, British publisher Tony Faber offered a $1,000,000 prize if a proof was submitted before April 2002. The prize was not claimed.
- The television drama Lewis featured a mathematics professor who had won the Fields medal for his work on Goldbach's conjecture.
- Isaac Asimov's short story "Sixty Million Trillion Combinations" featured a mathematician who suspected that his work on Goldbach's conjecture had been stolen.
- In the Spanish movie La habitación de Fermat (2007), a young mathematician claims to have proved the conjecture.
- A reference is made to the conjecture in the Futurama straight-to-DVD film The Beast with a Billion Backs, in which multiple elementary proofs are found in a Heaven-like scenario.
- In the cartoon The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2003), Jimmy stated that he was in the middle of proving Goldbach's prime number conjecture.
- In the movie The Calculus of Love (2011), a mathematics professor is obsessed with solving the Goldbach conjecture.
- In her Geek & Sundry show The Flog, Felicia Day jokingly mentions that she dedicates nine percent of her mind to computing Goldbach's conjecture.
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