Can anyone in the know give an opinion on the claimed proof? I see Wikipedia has already been updated:
Considerable work has been done on the weak Goldbach conjecture
culminating in a 2013 claimed proof by Harald Helfgott.
For the casual reader, there is a great novel by Apostolos Doxiadis based around Goldbach's conjecture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Petros_and_Goldbach%27s_C...
(Doxiadis's "Logicomix" is also recommended)