Sixty-two years after Jon Rokne stepped foot on campus, the computer science professor who brought the internet to the ...

Disclaimer: I am completely outside the world of advanced mathematics or professional academia. This project represents a look at a 90-year-old puzzle from the perspective of systems logic, binary ...

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Abstract: Collatz conjecture (or 3x+1 problem) has been explored for about 80 years. By now the largest number that has been verified for Collatz conjecture is about 60 bits. In this paper, we propose ...

Vishnu Kannan had just begun learning math as an early elementary school student in Howard County when his older brother came to him with a math problem. If he could solve it, he’d earn a dozen ...

This repository contains computer programs implementing a completely new approach to calculating iterates of the Collatz function. The trick is that, when calculating the function iterates, the ...

"If it is an even number, divide by 2; if it is an odd number, multiply by 3 and add 1." A simple rule like this. This operation, which even an elementary school student can understand, is actually ...

The Collatz Conjecture begins with a simple sequence yet no proof has ever been found to solve it. British military says ship ablaze after being struck off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden ...

Amateur mathematicians are closing in on an unimaginably huge number – one so large that it brushes up on the edge of what is even knowable within the framework of modern mathematics. It all stems ...

At first glance, the problem seems ridiculously simple. And yet experts have been searching for a solution in vain for decades. According to mathematician Jeffrey Lagarias, number theorist Shizuo ...