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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Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table
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 ... and ideas that make sense of a ...
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‘Once in a Century’ Proof Settles Math’s Kakeya Conjecture
Try to spin it around so that it points once in every direction, but make sure it sweeps ... version of the Kakeya conjecture, a step toward bridging the two levels. It’s also a dimensional leap for ...
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"Once In A Century" Math Proof Threads The Needle On A Decades-Old Conjecture
If pure math can teach us anything, it’s this: occasionally, your special interest might just change the world. For Joshua Zahl and Hong Wang, that special interest was the Kakeya conjecture.