A Conversation for The 3n+1 Conjecture - Proof Needed!

A few references...

Post 1

toybox

Just ran across http://fr.arxiv.org/abs/math.AG/0312309 today ("The Collatz 3n+1 Conjecture Is Improvable"). Note that this does not mean I guarantee the paper is correct (well it didn't convince me, there).

Nevertheless, it shows that the Collatz conjecture is still a burning topic, isn't it? Now here's a few further related links taken from the above paper:

"Reflecting on the 3x+1 Mystery. Outline of a Scenario"
http://www-irma.u-strasbg.fr/irma/publications/1998/98049.shtml

"The 3x+1 problem: An annotated bibliography"
http://fr.arxiv.org/abs/math.NT/0309224

"On the 3x+1 conjecture" - a few pages supplying, amongst others, numerical data on this innocent looking problem.
http://personal.computrain.nl/eric/wondrous/

smiley - stout


A few references...

Post 2

Gnomon - time to move on

It makes you think, doesn't it?

smiley - smiley


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