Now, more than 122 years after it was first proposed, Kamata and two other mathematicians have finally proved that a solution with fewer pieces is impossible. Their result was posted to the server ...
The deceptively simple Kakeya conjecture has bedeviled mathematicians for 50 years. A new proof of the conjecture in three ...
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