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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…
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‘Epic’ mathematical proof solves the three-bubble problem
Then last fall, Milman took a leave of absence and decided to visit Neeman so the two could focus on…
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The ‘nasty’ geometry breaks the decades-old tiling guesswork
One of the The oldest and simplest problems in geometry have caught mathematicians off guard—and this is not the first…
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New math on wrinkle patterns
A few minutes at a 2018 talk at the University of Michigan, Ian Tobasco picked up a large sheet of…
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