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

Monash University researchers have extended Descartes’ Circle Theorem by finding a general equation for any number of tangent ...

Professors from NYU and the University of British Columbia have resolved the Kakeya set conjecture in three dimensions.

From undergraduate study to graduate, postdoctoral and faculty research, women within the Mellon College of Science’s Department of Mathematical Sciences are among those continuing the tradition of ...

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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 ...

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