Wolfram, Collatz and Mahler - an open problem, handed to everyone
Hello everybody. You don’t know me and I don’t know you. I have been working to the absolute limit of my ability over this past week in pursuit of a golden mathematical goose - the Wolfram Rule 30 outstanding math prize (3 x $10,000).
From the beginning this has been an exploration with Claude (Please no anti-AI talk - this post is me in my human words only) but over time I, with no prior knowledge, have come to know the problem intimately myself. I have worked it to the limit and beyond what has done before. I have discovered the Wolfram, Collatz and Mahler problems are intimately linked - and likely share the same solution. And I have built a website that explains everything I have done and how you can carry this torch onwards to a real proof.
This is not a trick, or an AI hallucination. Every claim I have made is a testable scientific statement. Every single step of every single discovery at every single moment in time is recorded in my git. I have frozen this project now because I can no longer take it any further. I simply don’t know enough to move the needle any further without outside help. So I am turning it over to you for the sake of the maths, forsake of the money, for the betterment of science and maths in general. Good luck, and God bless.
The git: https://github.com/ghywel/placego