Editing Goldbach's conjecture (section)

===Similar conjecture by Descartes===
[[René Descartes]] wrote that "Every even number can be expressed as the sum of at most three primes."<ref>[https://real.mtak.hu/164172/1/PJ_DESCARTES_Conjecture1109.pdf ''On a conjecture of Descartes''] János Pintz, ELKH R´enyi Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
</ref> The proposition is similar to, but weaker than, Goldbach's conjecture. [[Paul Erdős]] said that "Descartes actually discovered this before Goldbach... but it is better that the conjecture was named for Goldbach because, mathematically speaking, Descartes was infinitely rich and Goldbach was very poor."<ref>{{cite book |last=Hoffman |first=Paul |date=1998|title=The Man Who Loved Only Numbers |location= United States|publisher=Hyperion Books |page=36 |isbn=978-0786863624}}</ref>