A new proof marks major progress toward solving the Kakeya conjecture, a deceptively simple question that underpins a tower of conjectures.| Quanta Magazine
There has been some spectacular progress in geometric measure theory: Hong Wang and Joshua Zahl have just released a preprint that resolves the three-dimensional case of the infamous Kakeya set conjecture! This conjecture asserts that a Kakeya set – a subset of that contains a unit line segment in every direction, must have Minkowski and Hausdorff dimension equal to three. (There is also a stronger “maximal function” version of this conjecture that remains open at present, although the...| What's new
The deceptively simple Kakeya conjecture has bedeviled mathematicians for 50 years. A new proof of the conjecture in three dimensions illuminates a whole crop of related problems.| Quanta Magazine
There has been some spectacular progress in geometric measure theory: Hong Wang and Joshua Zahl have just released a preprint that resolves the three-dimensional case of the infamous Kakeya set con…| What's new