Collatz Conjecture

from blog The Blog of Random, | ↗ original
Jeffery Lagarias, expert on the Collatz conjecture, mathematician at the University of MichiganThis is a really dangerous problem. People become obsessed with it and it really is impossible.Paul Erdös, the man who only loved numbersMathematics is not ready for such problems yet.Master of alliteration, meMany, many mathematicians over the months...