Olivier Ramaré

Who is Olivier Ramaré?

Olivier Ramaré is a French mathematician from CNRS who teaches at the Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille.

In 1995, he sharpened earlier work on Schnirelmann's theorem by proving that every even number is a sum of at most six primes. This result may be compared with Goldbach's conjecture, which states that every even number except 2 is the sum of two primes. The truth of Ramaré's result for all sufficiently large even numbers is a consequence of Vinogradov's theorem, whereas the full result follows from Goldbach's weak conjecture.