Bakuage Co., Ltd. headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, announced on July 7, 2021, that it is offering a prize of 120 million Japanese yen (*) to anyone who has revealed the truth of the Collatz conjecture ...
Kevin Lieber of Vsauce2 examines why the Collatz Conjecture is still a complex mathematical mystery.
Seaweed? Worms? Bad hair day? The animation below is a new way to look at the Collatz conjecture, one of the most high-profile open problems in mathematics. The conjecture is easy to explain, given ...
Kevin Lieber of Vsauce2 examines the enduring mathematical enigma known as the Collatz Conjecture.