Anonymous at Tue, 28 Jan 2025 04:56:42 UTC No. 16567133

>all this autism for some meme conjecture
That's why I'm never taking number theory seriously. Tell me one fucking thing that the Collatz conjecture does for the rest of mathematics or even the rest of number theory.

Anonymous at Tue, 28 Jan 2025 05:21:39 UTC No. 16567154

>>16567133
I dunno anon, this was just something I came up with for fun. Is there really a point to having fun?

Anonymous at Tue, 28 Jan 2025 05:24:16 UTC No. 16567156

>>16567154
I get fun for the sake of fun, but for me fun is discovering some obscure connection between two seemingly unrelated categories or proving a result about one category using the tools of another just to find out that you can do the converse in a couple weeks. This seems so self-contained that it's in that "almost schizo" territory, no offense. I just don't get the hype and the effort.

Anonymous at Tue, 28 Jan 2025 05:56:44 UTC No. 16567172

>>16567156
Well obviously it's self contained you retard. It's like asking why the aeolipile was self contained when it was literally the first steam engine to ever exist. I came up with this less than a year ago (not like you'll ever know who I am).

Anonymous at Tue, 28 Jan 2025 06:00:18 UTC No. 16567175

>>16567172
Well of course it's self contained*
Also not like I'm expecting /sci/ to care. This is just here as an archive.

Anonymous at Tue, 28 Jan 2025 12:48:03 UTC No. 16567377

>>16567172
>the first steam engine
that would be Galois’ work. Fermat’s last theorem and the Collatz conjecture are such memes that I haven’t seen them ever mentioned anywhere outside of “this is a tough nut to crack”.

Anonymous at Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:52:31 UTC No. 16567719

You haven't explained what m_i(x) stand for (although later I figured it out). Include the definitions of all the terms you use so it's easier to read and the reader doesn't have to guess.

Anonymous at Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:01:52 UTC No. 16567727

Formalize it in Lean.