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Mathematicians are ridiculous. Here's an unsolved problem for you: Take a positive number n. If n is odd, triple it and add 1. If n is even, halve it. Repea
by DarkShikari 17y ago
Mathematicians are ridiculous. Here's an unsolved problem for you:
Take a positive number n. If n is odd, triple it and add 1. If n is even, halve it. Repeat the process ad infinitum but stop if n reaches 1. For all numbers n, will this series converge to 1?
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Until mathematicians can solve a problem like this, they can take their time with the Riemann Hypothesis and Axiom of Choice.
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( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_Conjecture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_Conjecture )
- cool-RR 17y agoNice parody. I think it's not a valid comparison though. Proving the Collatz Conjecture is not essential for understanding the Riemann Hypothesis, or any other such subject. It will probably not advance the proof of RH at all. On the other hand, knowledge of the problem I raised, motion of charged macroscopic objects, is crucial to understanding Classical Electromagnetism, which is crucial to understand QM, which is crucial to understand most of modern physics.