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"Once In A Century" Math Proof Threads The Needle On A Decades-Old Conjecture
If pure math can teach us anything, it’s this: occasionally, your special interest might just change the world. For Joshua ...
Scientific American10d
The 9 Unsolved Mysteries Mathematicians Can’t Stop Thinking About
Other unsolved mathematical mysteries are akin to the branches of trees. The trees themselves—fields within the wider subject ...
Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table
A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster ...
Quanta Magazine6d
‘Once in a Century’ Proof Settles Math’s Kakeya Conjecture
Consider a pencil lying on your desk. Try to spin it around so that it points once in every direction, but make sure it sweeps over as little of the desk’s surface as possible. You might twirl the ...
Phys.org8d
Mathematicians move the needle on the Kakeya conjecture, a decades-old geometric problem
Hong Wang and Joshua Zahl have just released a preprint that resolves the three-dimensional case of the infamous Kakeya set conjecture," wrote UCLA mathematics professor Terence Tao, who won the ...
Simon Fraser University4y
Berge-Fulkerson Conjecture
Archdeacon, Bonnington, and Siran (unpublished work) have examined many non-3-edge-colorable graphs of small order and have verified that they satisify the conjecture. [1] D.R. Fulkerson, Blocking and ...
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Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture
Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones ...