Last year I spent some time working on the Collatz Conjecture. I realized recently that while I have not solved the conjecture, Steemit would be a good place to post what I have so far. This will act to time stamp my work and also to share it with others who may wish to build on anything useful herein. If you wish to learn about the Collatz Conjecture, I recommend the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3x_%2B_1_problem . It's really easy to grasp (a 4th grader could understand it in 2 minutes..but solving it is another matter)
I used a program called TexMaker which I hear is a must for college kids who need to create clean looking PDF's or final papers that have equations or uncommon symbols as part of the finished product. It worked well for me and took minimal effort to learn a few tips and tricks (getting the syntax right to create the document from code). Does anyone know a way to show a PDF file on a Steemit post? The best I could do for now is to add it page by page after using a converter lol. Anyway, I'm hoping this is the first time on Steemit that work on an unsolved math problem has been stored for the obvious reasons mentioned above. I need to continue work on Collatz Conjecture =).
