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.
We almost have a solution to an exceptionally tricky mathematical riddle first posed 82 years ago. The problem, known as the Collatz conjecture, is easy to state. Start with any positive whole number.