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The Collatz conjecture [a] is one of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics. ... [36] [37] The connection is made through the Busy Beaver function, ...
Lothar Collatz (German:; July 6, 1910 – September 26, 1990) was a German mathematician, born in Arnsberg, Westphalia. The "3x + 1" problem is also known as the Collatz conjecture, named after him and still unsolved. The Collatz–Wielandt formula for the Perron–Frobenius eigenvalue of a positive square matrix was also named after him.
Conjecture Field Comments Eponym(s) Cites 1/3–2/3 conjecture: order theory: n/a: 70 abc conjecture: number theory: ⇔Granville–Langevin conjecture, Vojta's conjecture in dimension 1 ⇒Erdős–Woods conjecture, Fermat–Catalan conjecture Formulated by David Masser and Joseph Oesterlé. [1] Proof claimed in 2012 by Shinichi Mochizuki: n/a ...
The Collatz Conjecture. In September 2019, news broke regarding progress on this 82-year-old question, thanks to prolific mathematician Terence Tao. ... The good news is that we’ve made some ...
He is known for the Terras theorem about the Collatz conjecture, published in 1976, [6] which proved that the conjecture holds for "almost all" numbers and established bounds for the conjecture. [7] [8] He married fellow mathematician Audrey Terras. [9]
The conjecture is that there is a simple way to tell whether such equations have a finite or infinite number of rational solutions. More specifically, the Millennium Prize version of the conjecture is that, if the elliptic curve E has rank r , then the L -function L ( E , s ) associated with it vanishes to order r at s = 1 .
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It is Gardner's 10th collection of columns, and includes material on Conway's Game of Life, supertasks, intransitive dice, braided polyhedra, combinatorial game theory, the Collatz conjecture, mathematical card tricks, and Diophantine equations such as Fermat's Last Theorem. [3]