Editing Christian Goldbach (section)

=== Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences ===
[[File:Russian Academy of Sciences SPB.jpg|thumb|Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences building called Kunstkammer dating back to 1728]]
Goldbach followed Bilfinger and Hermann to the newly opened St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1725.<ref name="eb">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Christian Goldbach |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/237446/Christian-Goldbach |access-date=26 October 2014 |date=16 August 2013}}</ref> [[Christian Wolff (philosopher)|Christian Wolff]] had invited and had written recommendations for all the Germans who traveled to Saint Petersburg for the academy except Goldbach.<ref name=":4" /> Goldbach wrote to the president-designate of the academy, petitioning for a position in the academy, using his past publications and knowledge in medicine and law as qualifications.<ref name=":4" /><ref name="eb" /> Goldbach was then hired to a five-year contract as a professor of mathematics and historian of the academy.<ref name=":4" /><ref name="eb" /> As historian of the academy, he recorded each academy meeting from the opening of the school in 1725 until January 1728.<ref name="eb" /> Goldbach worked with famous mathematicians like [[Leonhard Euler]], [[Daniel Bernoulli]], [[Johann Bernoulli]], and [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]].<ref name=":1" /> Goldbach also played a part in Euler's decision to academically pursue mathematics instead of medicine, cementing mathematics as the premier research field of the academy in the 1730s.<ref name=":4" />