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This time Gert Scobel is caught in an endless loop. It's about the Collatz conjecture, which his colleague Böhmermann also put some brainpower into in his podcast. 4-2-1 Go! Anyone who tackles this math problem can become rich in one fell swoop! Because large sums of money are repeatedly offered for the solution. Or they fail miserably. The problem is easily explained - but still unsolved to this day. However, budding mathematicians are advised not to try and break their teeth on it. From a philosophical point of view, Gert Scobel comes to the following conclusion: We don't even know the numbers - which we invented ourselves. Our own imagination presents us with puzzles that we may never be able to solve. And it is mathematics that helps us understand complex systems such as the climate and its changes. The Simplest Math Problem No One Can Solve – Collatz Conjecture • The Simplest Math Problem No One Can ... When science is true – according to Karl Popper • When science is true – according to Kar... scobel – The magic of mathematics https://kurz.zdf.de/uzCvvy/ "Firm and Fluffy – The Ekard Conjecture" podcast from October 3rd, 2021 https://open.spotify.com/episode/7Ikd... Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1981 Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus logico-philosophicus, 1918 Karl Popper: The Two Fundamental Problems of Epistemology, 1979 Fields Medal International Mathematical Union (IMU) (mathunion.org) https://www.spektrum.de/news/collatz-... https://www.spektrum.de/kolumne/keine... Chapter 00:00 - Intro 01:25 - Introduction to the problem 05:06 - Where does the Collatz problem come from? 07:30 - Philosophically speaking 09:28 - Complex systems 15:04 - Attractor state 19:50 - Iterative process 22:25 - Human Jan... 23:48 - At the end Scobel is a ZDF production in collaboration with Objektiv Media. Subscribe? Just click here: / scobel The TV show "scobel" on 3sat: https://kurz.zdf.de/re37/