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Visualizing the Collatz Conjecture as a Phase Transition


Ghost in the Machine. Paul Erdős famously said of the Collatz Conjecture ($3n+1$): "Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems." The problem lives at a jagged intersection where number theory crashes into chaotic dynamics.

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