A New Proof Moves the Needle on a Sticky Geometry Problem
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In 1917, the Japanese mathematician Sōichi Kakeya posed what at first ...
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A ‘Monumental’ Math Proof Solves the Triple Bubble Problem
Then last fall, Milman came up for sabbatical and decided to visit Neeman so the pair could make a concentrated ...
A New Computer Proof ‘Blows Up’ Centuries-Old Fluid Equations
For centuries, mathematicians have sought to understand and model the motion of fluids. The equations that describe how ripples crease ...
