The Quanta Podcast· Staffel 1· Folge 24

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

Donnerstag, 11. September 2025 · 11 min

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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.
quantamagazine.org/once-in-a-century-proof-set… story ‘Once in a Century’ Proof Settles Math’s Kakeya Conjecture (quantamagazine.org/once-in-a-century-proof-set…) first appeared on Quanta Magazine.

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