A Math Couple Solves a Major Group Theory Problem—After 20 Years of Work
Britta Späth has dedicated her career to proving a single, central conjecture. She’s finally succeeded, alongside her partner ...
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Math's "Bunkbed Conjecture" Has Been Proven False After 40 Years
“Why look for a counterexample if the conjecture is so obviously true?” wrote Igor Pak, a math professor at UCLA and one of the authors of the new paper, in a blog post on the breakthrough.
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‘Once in a Century’ Proof Settles Math’s Kakeya Conjecture
Consider a pencil lying on your desk. Try to spin it around so that it points once in every direction, but make sure it sweeps over as little of the desk’s surface as possible. You might twirl the ...
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Mathematicians move the needle on the Kakeya conjecture, a decades-old geometric problem
Hong Wang and Joshua Zahl have just released a preprint that resolves the three-dimensional case of the infamous Kakeya set conjecture," wrote UCLA mathematics professor Terence Tao, who won the ...