This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...
As he was brushing his teeth on the morning of July 17, 2014, Thomas Royen, a little-known retired German statistician, suddenly lit upon the proof of a famous conjecture at the intersection of ...
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Mathematicians Wrote a Proof for a 100-Year-Old Problem—and May Have Just Changed Geometry
A 125-page proof posted to arXiv may represent a huge breakthrough in geometric measure theory. This problem has implications in fields like encryption, computer science, and number theory. How much ...
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