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A New Proof Moves the Needle on a Sticky Geometry Problem

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1917, the Japanese mathematician Sōichi Kakeya posed what at first seemed like nothing more than a fun exercise in geometry. Lay an ...
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Mathematicians Wrote a Proof for a 100-Year-Old Problem—and May Have Just Changed Geometry

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Two mathematicians now say they’ve made progress on a very old unsolved math problem. The problem ...
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Mathematicians May Have Just Changed Geometry

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A 125-page proof posted to arXiv may represent a huge breakthrough in geometric measure theory. This ...
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A Once-in-a-Century Proof: The Kakeya Conjecture

(via Quanta) A simple question about a spinning needle has haunted mathematicians for more than a century. It led to the Kakeya conjecture, a cornerstone of modern analysis connecting geometry, ...
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'Once in a Century' Proof Settles Math’s Kakeya Conjecture

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A New Proof Moves the Needle on a Sticky Geometry Problem

But it’s also something that mathematicians still don’t fully understand. In the past few years, they’ve proved variations of the Kakeya conjecture in easier settings, but the question remains ...
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Mathematicians Wrote a Proof for a 100-Year-Old Problem—and May Have Just Changed Geometry

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A 125-page proof posted to arXiv may represent a huge breakthrough in geometric measure theory. This ...