Audio Edition: ‘Once in a Century’ Proof Settles Math’s Kakeya Conjecture
Sep 11, 2025•11 min•Season 1Ep. 24
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Episode description
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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