The ultimate challenge : the 3x+1 problem / Jeffrey C. Lagarias, editor.

Contributor Lagarias, Jeffrey C., 1949-

Imprint:Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, c2010.

Descriptionxiv, 344 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Note:The 3x+1 problem: an overview -- The 3x+1 problem and its generalizations / Jeffrey C. Lagarias -- Survey papers. A 3x+1 survey: number theory and dynamical systems / Marc Chamberland -- Generalized 3x+1 mappings: Markov chains and ergodic theory / K.R. Matthews -- Generalized 3x+1 functions and the theory of computation / Pascal Michel and Maurice Margenstern -- Stochastic modelling and computation papers. Stochastic models for the 3x+1 and 5x+1 problems and related problems / Alex V. Kontorovich and Jeffrey C. Lagarias -- Empirical verification of the 3x+1 and related conjectures / Tomas Oliveira E Silva -- Reprinted early papers. Cyclic sequences and frieze patterns (The fourth Felix Behrend Memorial Lecture) / H.S.M. Coxeter -- Unpredictable iterations / J.H. Conway -- Iteration of the number-theoretic function: f(2n) = n, f(2n +1) = 3n + 2 / C.J. Everett -- Don't try to solve these problems! / Richard K. Guy -- On the motivation and origin of the (3n + 1)-problem / Lothar Collatz -- FRACTRAN: a simple universal programming language for arithmetic / J.H. Conway -- The 3x+1 problem: an annotated bibliography (1963-1999) / Jeffrey C. Lagarias.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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