You must have been working on this for over 6 years!
Ask some of the presenters at the YouTube channel Numberphile. Serious. These guys are connected.
Brady Haran is the owner and operator.
Math is hard, mm~kay. I loved geometry class in high school and being exposed to logic and math at the same time. That was the 70’s. My brain is not near as elastic as it used to be.
Good luck on your proof!
Contact Scientific American magazine.
More for everyone, here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture
Let me just say, it “is an extraordinarily difficult problem, completely out of reach of present day mathematics.”
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematician-proves-huge-result-on-dangerous-problem-20191211/
Regarding publishing, if your serious, you want to go to a mathematics related journal, submit it, where they will get it peer reviewed to see if you really have something new.
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics
I just read the paper…before submitting it to a journal, get someone to proofread it. I spotted a number of errors.
Although I don’t know what it is that you have, congratulations.
I do hope your proof holds up to examinations.
Did you remember to carry the 2?
It seems you have published this on the Internet.
The Collatz conjecture postulates that for any integer, the following rule set applied
successively to the solution of the previous application, will eventually yield an answer of
one:
-If a number is even, divide by two.
-If the number is odd, triple it and add one
You do not appear to be alone. Here are some more attampts:
https://jabde.com/2020/11/18/proof-of-the-collatz-conjecture/
Here is another:
https://www.academia.edu/24110459/A_proof_of_the_Collatz_conjecture
Bttt.
5.56mm
If your argument is correct, you already published it.
I hope you don’t mind me saying this but uploading a proof of this without even putting your name on the work invites theft. Someone else may easily rush into publishing this.
and if your proof is actually correct — i did not have time to read it yet — this would be sad.
SO, I have no idea.......
Don’t you win a cash prize if you are correct?
If so, don’t forget about your friends at FR. All of them.
I would think that the editors at Mathematics Magazine could point you in the right direction.
And don’t count on Freepers- those guys are a bunch of smartasses!
=)
Very good work. Bravissimo.
“the process of getting it published” has improved. Do it yourself. Find a publisher, get five friends to compliment your text and credit them in the introduction, sell it on amazon, make audio version, and trust that fans will find your text and love it.
Here is a good coach: https://youtu.be/ejQQhHKIMYg
Ask Penny. She may be able to help you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gA-ZzVgmRc