Applications for Collatz's Conjecture?
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09-29-2014, 12:59 PM
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RE: Applications for Collatz's Conjecture?
(09-29-2014 03:55 AM)Namir Wrote: My question to all the math-minded folks out there is, Are there any special or interesting uses for the Collatz sequences? My personal opinion: Yes: entertainment. Wikipedia's article about the Collatz Conjecture mentions no practical uses for it, but I agree with the following essay from Time Magazine, 18 April 1988: Charles Krauthammer Wrote:It is the pride of political thought that ideas have consequences. Mathematics, to its glory, is ideas without consequences. “A mathematician,” says Paul Erdös, one of its greatest living practitioners and one of the most eccentric, “is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.” Mathematicians do not like to admit that, because when they do, their grant money dries up — it is hard to export theorems — and they are suspected of just playing around, which of course they are. <0|ɸ|0> -Joe- |
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Applications for Collatz's Conjecture? - Namir - 09-29-2014, 03:55 AM
RE: Applications for Collatz's Conjecture? - Joe Horn - 09-29-2014 12:59 PM
RE: Applications for Collatz's Conjecture? - Thomas Klemm - 09-29-2014, 04:49 PM
RE: Applications for Collatz's Conjecture? - Namir - 09-29-2014, 11:26 PM
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