Summer of Math Exposition

Presented by 3Blue1Brown 3blue1brown

Clean Collatz Branches

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In this video we will see what seeds put into the collatz function will take only the 3x+1 branch then only the x/2 branch before x = 1.


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This is a cool bit of recreational mathematics, but it doesn’t seem that well suited to a math explainer video. To appeal to a broad audience, it needs more high-level motivation and potentially animations of these branches and observations. It is hard to make novel content about the Collatz Conjecture.

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I really liked how you explained the problem simply in the video and then introduced your unique question. One suggestion I have is to create more visualizations/animations in addition to showing the code or slides to help with engagement, and also share why this problem is interesting and valuable.