Experienced mathematicians warn up-and-comers to stay away from the Collatz conjecture. It’s a siren song, they say: Fall under its trance and you may never do meaningful work again. The Collatz ...
An attempt at tackling the intractable Collatz conjecture is a “noble failure” demonstrating the promise of automated reasoning techniques. The computer scientist Marijn Heule is always on the lookout ...
the Collatz conjecture, created with AI assistance, was accepted by the theorem proving system Lean, but it was discovered that it actually exploited a bug in the core of Lean. Leonardo de Moura, the ...