COLLATZ CONJECTURE PROVEN

by steve waterman April 5, 2012
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     The Collatz conjecture is a conjecture in mathematics named after Lothar Collatz, who first proposed it in 1937. The conjecture is also known as the 3n + 1 conjecture, the Ulam conjecture (after Stanislaw Ulam), Kakutani's problem (after Shizuo Kakutani), the Thwaites conjecture (after Sir Bryan Thwaites), Hasse's algorithm (after Helmut Hasse), or the Syracuse problem; the sequence of numbers involved is referred to as the hailstone sequence or hailstone numbers, or as wondrous numbers.

Does the Collatz sequence from initial value n eventually reach 1, for all n > 0?

My diagram below is proof that this true...any number chosen can walk up by row to reach 1.

                                                                 
  Each lower row contains an event of 2n and 2n+1  
         
    1    
     
    2   3    
     
    4   5   6   7    
     
    8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15    
     
  16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25   26   27   28   29   30   31  
                                   
  COLLATZ CONJECTURE…"PROVEN"     by steve waterman april 2, 2012  
                                                                 


my proof for the 5n+1 conjecture


my proof for a variation of 4n+1 for this conjecture


other "attempted proofs" visualized as graphs from the internet...


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