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Math's "Bunkbed Conjecture" Has Been Proven False After 40 Years
“Why look for a counterexample if the conjecture is so obviously true?” wrote Igor Pak, a math professor at UCLA and one of the authors of the new paper, in a blog post on the breakthrough.
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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 ...
Quanta Magazine13d
‘Once in a Century’ Proof Settles Math’s Kakeya Conjecture
The deceptively simple Kakeya conjecture has bedeviled mathematicians for 50 years. A new proof of the conjecture in three ...
A Math Couple Solves a Major Group Theory Problem—After 20 Years of Work
Britta Späth has dedicated her career to proving a single, central conjecture. She’s finally succeeded, alongside her partner ...
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 ...
Phys.org16d
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 ...
Chinese maths star Wang Hong solves ‘infamous’ geometry problem
It’s seen as significant progress in geometric measure theory, and she could be in the running for a Fields Medal.