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What does proving the Collatz Conjecture entail?
From the get go: i'm not trying to prove the Collatz Conjecture where hundreds of smarter people have failed. I'm just curious.
I'm wondering where one would have to start in proving the Collatz ...
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What is the importance of 3n in the Collatz Conjecture?
I'm not mathematician, so forgive me if I make wrong assumptions. I was wondering what the importance of the $3n$ is in the Collatz Conjuncture.
If you just do $n + 1$, it seems you'll end up at $1$ ...
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Status of a conjecture about powers of 2
I recently saw a conjecture on a blog ( http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/?p=311 ) which the author refers to as the 86 conjecture. The conjecture claims that all powers of 2 greater than $2^{86}$ have a ...
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Branches of mathematics not having a general method to solve
I studied applied math, so each course (except abstract algebra) was dedicated to solution of a similar problems. After those courses it seems that every branch of mathematics has a developed theory ...
