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An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated

An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated

Published 1 year, 11 months ago
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The telescope conjecture gave mathematicians a handle on ways to map one sphere to another. Now that it has been disproved, the universe of shapes has exploded. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Slow Burn” by Kevin MacLeod.

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