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Audio Edition: ‘Once in a Century’ Proof Settles Math’s Kakeya Conjecture

Audio Edition: ‘Once in a Century’ Proof Settles Math’s Kakeya Conjecture


Season 1 Episode 24


The deceptively simple Kakeya conjecture has bedeviled mathematicians for 50 years. A new proof of the conjecture in three dimensions illuminates a whole crop of related problems.


The story ‘Once in a Century’ Proof Settles Math’s Kakeya Conjecture first appeared on Quanta Magazine.


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