Question

Does there exist an intuition / proof of the Collatz Conjecture?

Answer 1

no there is no proof

Answer 2

How was this conjecture even introduced then?

Answer 3

1) http://alienryderflex.com/collatz_analysis.shtml
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbach's_conjecture

Answer 4

Hmm... how was this conjecture derived?

Answer 5

Wasn't it that you reach 1?

Answer 6

Prove that there exists no number "n" such that if n is even u divide it by 2 and if n is odd u multiply it by 3 and add 1...... And After this u will get another number n_1 Now, continue the same process and this gives n_2 ........ And so on until n=n_a .

Answer 7

How to prove that?