TITLE: Did Pogorzelski claim to have a proof of Goldbach's Conjecture?
QUESTION [24 upvotes]: In 1977, Henry Pogorzelski published what some believed was a claimed proof of Goldbach's Conjecture in Crelle's Journal (292, 1977, 1-12). His argument has not been accepted as a proof of Goldbach's Conjecture, but as far as I know it has not been shown that his argument is incorrect.
Pogorzelski's argument is said to depend on the "Consistency Hypothesis," the "Extended Wittgenstein Thesis," and "Church's Thesis." Pogorzelski has a Ph.D. in mathematics (his advisor was Raymond Smullyan).
Daniel Shanks says in Solved and Unsolved Problems in Number Theory (fourth edition, 1993) that: "It seems unlikely that (most) number-theorists will accept this as a proof [of Goldbach's Conjecture] but perhaps we should wait for the dust to settle before we attempt a final assessment." (page 222)
Did Pogorzelski claim to present a proof of Goldbach's Conjecture? If so, and this claimed proof has not been disproven after 33 years, I am curious why this would be the case, given that Shanks considers it important enough to mention in his book.

REPLY [8 votes]: For what it's worth, the 12/12/2012 article at http://bostonglobe.com/news/science/2012/12/11/math-even-mathematicians-don-understand/e41V2lixnAVyB63X4NTPaO/story.html indicates that Pogorzelski believes that he has established a legitimate demonstration of the Goldbach conjecture (which he claims he obtained in the 1990s).  The article quotes from his manuscript's preface that his proof was submitted for publication in 2002, and he received no response.