Experienced mathematicians warn up-and-comers to stay away from the Collatz conjecture. Itâs a siren song, they say: Fall under its trance and you may never do meaningful work again. The Collatz conjecture is quite possibly the simplest unsolved problem in mathematics â which is exactly what makes it so treacherously alluring. âThis is a really dangerous problem. People become obsessed with it and
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