Number theory - 2017-08-29

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Martin Sleziak

10:00

Q: Where can I find an expert who is able to verify the proof of the Collatz Conjecture?

I'm looking for an expert who is able to test my manuscript "The Proof of the Collatz Conjecture" and give a recommendation for publication in the peer-reviewed mathematical journal, as the editors want to submit a recommendation from a well-known mathematician to review my manuscript. The manus...

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> The manuscript in which to prove the Collatz Conjecture, also called Problem 3x + 1, can be read from the link:[https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Byj3oH0oUt2mTmNCR2cyaUg4d3M.][1]
Question: Where can I find an expert who is able to verify the proof of the Collatz Conjecture?

Any takers? :-)

Although this seems like a reasonable advice both for the OP and for anybody who would decide to start reading something like that:

First, check the list here: scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304 and make sure your article fulfills the guidelines. In particular, if it is not typeset in LaTeX, no-one is gonna read it. — Per Alexandersson 4 mins ago

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Leaky Nun

12:57

@MartinSleziak wow, 49 pages

Martin Sleziak

To be clear, I posted it here merely as a curiosity.

Leaky Nun

@MartinSleziak I might try to read through it

Martin Sleziak

The MO post has been already deleted - which was to be expected.

Leaky Nun

btw the correct link is drive.google.com/file/d/0Byj3oH0oUt2mTmNCR2cyaUg4d3M/view

Martin Sleziak

It seems to be the same thing as this: vixra.org/abs/1708.0177

Leaky Nun

13:06

@MartinSleziak the authors are the same

Martin Sleziak

The same person posted on vixra also a paper which alleges to prove Lonely runner conjecture, however that one is in Russian.

Leaky Nun

13:24

@MartinSleziak typos... what the hell

P.2 DEFINITIONS

It is known that, all odd numbers, except 1 and odd numbers multiply to 3, can be ...

the formatting is really poor. but I think I can deal with it

Leaky Nun

13:46

@MartinSleziak the first apparent mistake is mapping 6 to 19 (treating 6 as odd) instead of dividing it by 2

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vzn

18:27

amateur reviews

paper reviews and discussions about non-peer-reviewed or contr...

@MartinSleziak who is the SE user, do you recall? wasnt able to get to the post pg before deleted. suggest inviting these people into chat room(s).

Martin Sleziak

@vzn unregistered user, but you can see his name in the vixra links.

In fact, you can probably still see cached version of the post.

vzn

@LeakyNun @AkivaWeinberger @SteamyRoot @Daminark @BalarkaSen welcome to the room itd be great if you introduce yourselves, hope you can drop by regularly :)

Martin Sleziak

This is quite useful things sometimes: How to modify a URL to get a Google cached version of page?

vzn

@MartinSleziak thx that worked this is the user...

Leaky Nun

I'm going to start university in October

vzn

18:36

Kurmet Sultan

@LeakyNun cool where are you going? what country? what are you studying? adding this stuff to your profile would be nice/ helpful. :)

Leaky Nun

@vzn I should probably do so.

vzn

@MartinSleziak dont recall ever seeing "unregistered user" before, is that MO specific? strange

Leaky Nun

@vzn updated

Martin Sleziak

@vzn On math.SE you have to be registered in order to post a question (but not in order to post an answer): Let's require registration to ask a question. Most sites in SE network do not have this restriction.

vzn

@LeakyNun thx cool impressive :) are you going to study math? what country are you in right now?

Leaky Nun

18:41

@vzn yes (updated); HK

vzn

@LeakyNun not too many number-theoryists arond we gotta stick together :)

@MartinSleziak huh. didnt he post the question, pointing to his own paper?

Martin Sleziak

Yes, he did. On MathOverflow.

Mathoverflow does not have the requirement that you have to be registered. See meta.MO: Should MathOverflow require registration to ask a question?

vzn

@MartinSleziak ok. is there anything that describes what an unregistered user is? still seems "account-like"

Martin Sleziak

What you mean by "describes".

There are many differences. You can quite easily lost access to your posts without registration. Unregistered users cannot delete their posts. Simply browse the tag unregistered-users on meta.SE if you want to know more.

There were a few questions also on our local meta.

vzn

hmmm ok thx.

Leaky Nun

18:51

@vzn the user id?

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Daminark

19:55

@vzn I hope to do so as well

So, name is Amin (call me whichever), going into 3rd year, math major at UChicago

vzn

20:18

@Daminark hi how did you hear about the room, guessing did balarka recruit all you guys?

Daminark

I think it was Leaky

Balarka and I had our own room for a while

vzn

@Daminark did you guys hang out in another room? meet in Mathematics rooms?

Daminark

We were working through Weil's NT for beginners

vzn

@Daminark looks like great book :) ... balarka hangs out also in Physics but rarely talks about number-theory thought he might have given up on it lol

Daminark

It's quality. It's one of those short run through books, and it's pretty elementary to start with, only introduces algebra part of the way through, but I liked it

He hasn't been doing as much NT in recent times

I met him in Math

But at the time he was into algebraic topology, starting to break into geometry a bit

Like I was surprised that he used to do NT

vzn

20:22

amazon.com/Number-Theory-Beginners-Andre-Weil/dp/038790381X

Daminark

Yeah, it's that. Be careful about "Basic Number Theory", that book is ridiculous

Like it's all about class field theory

vzn

he had another great book recommendation trying to find it