One of the oldest and simplest problems in geometry has caught mathematicians off guard—and not for the first time. Since antiquity, artists and geometers have wondered how shapes can tile the entire ...
The artificial intelligence (AI) program DeepMind has gotten closer to proving a math conjecture that's bedeviled mathematicians for decades and revealed another new conjecture that may unravel how ...
On its surface, the Kakeya conjecture is a simple statement about rotating needles. But it underlies a wealth of mathematics. In mathematics, a simple problem is often not what it seems. Earlier this ...
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