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 ...
The Collatz conjecture is also known as the “3n + 1” problem. It’s an easy problem to explain and check, and has been tested up into the nineteen figure range. But it’s only now that anyone has come ...
the Collatz conjecture, created with AI assistance, was accepted by the theorem proving system Lean, but it was discovered that it actually exploited a bug in the core of Lean. Leonardo de Moura, the ...