Mathematician Joshua Zahl made headlines for solving the 100-year-old math problem Kakeya conjecture. He is now leaving ...

Joshua Zahl, the American mathematician who recently solved the century-old Kakeya conjecture, is leaving Canada's UBC for a ...

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Understanding the famously complex Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory could solve mathematics' greatest problems.

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But these solutions are interrelated in rich and complicated ways, and they show up in many of number theory’s most important questions. The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, for instance — one of ...

which deals with the sum of prime numbers and has implications on many other conjectures. IUT bears so little resemblance to other branches of math that it's been nicknamed the "alien's language." ...

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The problem is so confusing that even its proposed solution, the Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory (IUT), has been difficult ...