Deceptive puzzle may be solved after 74 years
A long-standing and apparently simple puzzle that has left mathematicians stumped for nearly three-quarters of a century may finally be solved.
The Collatz conjecture was proposed by Lothar Collatz in 1937. It is also known as the "3n + 1 problem" because of its deceptively-simple definition.
Now mathematician Gerhard Opfer of the University of Hamburg, who was a student of Collatz, says he has proved the conjecture true.
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Deceptive puzzle may be solved after 74 years
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