Lothar Collatz

Lothar Collatz (6 July 1910 – 26 September 1990) was a prominent German mathematician, best known for proposing the Collatz conjecture (also known as the 3n+1 problem) in 1937. Quotes During my student days at the University of Berlin, I was introduced to the game of Go [...] In the evenings, Go was eagerly played at Café König, often from 8:00 PM until 2:00 AM, and in accordance with the Japanese proverb He who has the Go stone in his mouth feels neither hunger nor thirst, it happened more than once that I missed the last suburban train and had to spend the night in the waiting room of the Tiergarten Station. [...] There are chess computers, but not yet any noteworthy Go computers (and hopefully there won't be usable Go computers anytime soon). Written in response to physics professor Hans Duhm, who had asked if Collatz could deliver a lecture titled "Go from the Perspective of Game Theory" ahead of the 1988 European Go Congress in Hamburg. Quoted in Lothar Collatz zwischen 1933 und 1950 - Eine Teilbiographie (2019) by Ingo Althöfer, p. 21-22. External links Category:1910 births Category:1990 deaths Category:Mathematicians from Germany Category:Humboldt University of Berlin alumni