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Mathematicians regard the Collatz conjecture as a quagmire and warn each other to stay away. But now Terence Tao has made more progress than anyone in decades.
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Mathematicians regard the Collatz conjecture as a quagmire and warn each other to stay away. But now Terence Tao has made more progress than anyone in decades.
The Collatz conjecture can be worked on by 9-year-old math whizzes, but it's flummoxed the greatest minds of the past century. Will it ever be solved?
Bakuage offers prize of 120 million JPY to whoever solves Collatz conjecture, math problem unsolved for 84 years 8th July 2021 13 hours ago - Highest Prize for Any Unsolved Problem in Mathematics - 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, an unsolved mathematical problem. (*) 120 million Japanese yen is about US$1,085,000 (1US$=JPY110.50 as of June 29, 2021). - What is Collatz conjecture? The Collatz conjecture is one of unsolved pro...