This ought to be a simple one to answer. Does anyone know of, or can anyone provide, an accurate English translation of the marginal remarks in Goldbach's letter to Euler


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in which a statement equivalent to the Goldbach conjecture is first stated?



Translation of Goldbach's 1742 letter to Euler
I have an English translation of the letter; you can find my email address on my homepage. 
Here is the relevant part:


"By the way, I take it to be not useless to note down also such propositions
that are very probable, even if a real proof is lacking; for even if
afterwards they were found to be erroneous, they could all the same give
occasion for the discovery of a new truth. Thus Fermat's idea that all the
numbers $2^{2^{n-1}}+1$ yield a series of prime numbers cannot hold up, as
you already demonstrated, Sir; but it should still be remarkable if this
series were composed only of numbers that could be split into two squares in
a unique way. I should like to risk another conjecture of that kind: any number 
composed from two primes is the sum of as many prime numbers (including $1$) as one wishes, right down to the sum that consists just of ones.


After reading this through again, I see that the conjecture can be proved 
quite rigorously for the case $n+1$ if it holds for the case $n$ and 
$n+1$ can be split into two prime numbers. The proof is very easy;
and at least it appears to be true that every number greater than 
$2$ is the sum of three prime numbers."


The translation was done by Martin Mattmüller.


