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

The Kakeya set—named for its discoverer Sōichi Kakeya—was complicated by a subsequent mathematician named Abram Samoilovitch ...

By solving part of the Langlands program, a mathematical proof that was long thought to be unachievable, Dennis Gaitsgory ...