Mathematician Terence Tao Cracks a ‘Dangerous’ Problem
by Kevin Hartnett from on (#4WKF9)
Tao has made huge progress on the Collatz conjecture, a simple-seeming puzzle that has bedeviled hapless mathematicians for decades.Tao has made huge progress on the Collatz conjecture, a simple-seeming puzzle that has bedeviled hapless mathematicians for decades.