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

It brought her to the office of Marc Cabanes, a mathematician now at the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu in Paris who, inspired by her efforts, became consumed by the conjecture, too.

It all starts with something called the Kakeya conjecture. A “conjecture” is a math guess—an idea that seems true, but nobody ...

To minimize the space it moves through, you’ll need an infinitely narrow needle—and creative math. This puzzle led to the Kakeya conjecture: It states that the number of dimensions of the ...

According to mathematical legend, Peter Sarnak and Noga Alon made a bet about optimal graphs in the late 1980s. They’ve now ...

Dennis Gaitsgory receives the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, endowed with 3 million US dollars “for foundational ...

Israeli-American mathematician Dennis Gaitsgory was awarded the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics for his role in the ...

Dennis Gaitsgory receives the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, endowed with 3 million US dollars ... algebraic ...