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A Brief Look into the Collatz Conjecture

Authors: Vedant Lohia

The late Paul Erdős famously said that regarding the Collatz Conjecture, "Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems" and his words ring true to this day. This paper outlines the attempts made to prove or disprove the conjecture and refrains from restricting itself to a very mathematical audience. While surface level knowledge of such conjectures and their nature might satiate some, it is for those who wish to know more before a sea of notation and concepts overwhelms them that I dedicate this paper.

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