Editing Christian Goldbach (section)

=== Early life ===
Born in the [[Duchy of Prussia]]'s capital [[Königsberg]], part of [[Brandenburg-Prussia]], Goldbach was the son of a pastor.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Christian Goldbach - Biography |url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Goldbach/ |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=Maths History |language=en}}</ref> He studied at the [[University of Königsberg|Royal Albertus University]].<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Aliprandini |first=Michael |date=2017-01-08 |title=Christian Goldbach |url=http://access.library.miami.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ulh&AN=20912957&site=ehost-live |journal=Great Tech Publishing |pages=1–2 |via=EBSCO}}</ref> After finishing his studies he went on long educational trips from 1710 to 1724 through Europe, visiting other German states, England, the Netherlands, Italy, and France, meeting with many famous mathematicians, such as [[Gottfried Leibniz]], [[Leonhard Euler]], and [[Nicholas I Bernoulli]]. These acquaintances started Goldbach's interest in mathematics.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Haas |first=Robert |date=2014-02-01 |title=Goldbach, Hurwitz, and the Infinitude of Primes: Weaving a Proof across the Centuries* |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-013-9402-8 |journal=The Mathematical Intelligencer |language=en |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=54–60 |doi=10.1007/s00283-013-9402-8 |s2cid=253817631 |issn=1866-7414}}</ref> He briefly attended [[Oxford University]] in 1713 and, while he was there, Goldbach studied mathematics with [[John Wallis]] and [[Isaac Newton]].<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Calinger |first=Ronald C |title=Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2015 |isbn=978-0691119274 |pages=50–51, 66–80, 328–345}}</ref> Also, Goldbach's travels fostered his interest in philology, archaeology, metaphysics, ballistics, and medicine.<ref name=":2" /> Between 1717 and 1724, Goldbach published his first few papers which, while minor, credited his mathematical ability. Back in Königsberg, he became acquainted with [[Georg Bernhard Bilfinger]] and [[Jakob Hermann]].<ref name=":3" />