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

Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:11:03
Publish Date: 2025-09-11 10:00:00
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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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