Technology companies have been powering the markets to new highs over the past several years as massive investments in AI, ...

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“Bille” is the first-ever monostable tetrahedron, or a pyramid-like shape with four triangular faces that has one stable ...

Hannah Cairo has solved the so-called Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a problem in harmonic analysis closely linked to other ...

Measured against that, the Kakeya conjecture – a problem stemming from a 1917 thought experiment by Japanese mathematician ...

Joshua Zahl, the American mathematician who recently solved the century-old Kakeya conjecture, is leaving Canada's UBC for a full-time position at China's Nankai University.

Math textbooks define a prime number as a whole number greater than one whose only positive divisors are only 1 and itself. Math historian Peter S. Rudman suggests that Greek mathematicians were ...

Mathematicians Solve Decades-Old Geometry Problem About Spinning a Needle That Had Long Puzzled the Field A new proof solves the “Kakeya conjecture” in three dimensions, opening up a new set ...

For a long time, the Kakeya conjecture, which involves rotating an infinitely narrow needle, kept mathematicians guessing—until now ...

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.

Mathematicians from New York University and the University of British Columbia have resolved a decades-old geometric problem, the Kakeya conjecture in 3D, which studies the shape left behind by a ...

Two breakthroughs in mathematics could reshape how researchers understand symmetries in nature and the behavior of complex ...