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Lother Collatz
(* July 6th 1910 in Arnsberg, † September 26th 1990)
German mathematician. In 1937 he posed the famous Collatz conjecture, which remains unsolved.
Life
For his many contributions to the field, Collatz had many honors bestowed upon him in his lifetime, including:
* election to the German Academy of Scientists Leopoldina, the academy at Bologna and Modena in Italy. * honorary member of the Hamburg Mathematical Society * honorary degrees by the University of São Paulo, the Technical University of Vienna, the University of Dundee in Scotland, Brunel University in England, the Technical University of Hanover, and the Technical University of Dresden.
He died in Varna, Bulgaria, while attending a mathematics conference.