TITLE:
A Solution to the 3x + 1 Problem
AUTHORS:
David C. Kay
KEYWORDS:
Collatz Sequences, Extreme Points, Pre-Extreme Sequence
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Computational Mathematics,
Vol.13 No.2,
June
30,
2023
ABSTRACT: The author makes the claim to have a solution for the famous 3x + 1 problem. The key to its solution is a special proof that the
term (3 + ε)r is a non-integer, as well as the use
of properties of extremal points of a Collatz sequence.