After more than three centuries, a geometry problem that originated with a royal bet has been solved.| Quanta Magazine
Kevin Hartnett was the senior writer at Quanta Magazine covering mathematics and computer science. His work has been collected in multiple volumes of the “Best Writing on Mathematics” series.| Quanta Magazine
After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.| Quanta Magazine
Explore Quanta’s geometry coverage.| Quanta Magazine
Joseph Howlett is a math writer for Quanta Magazine. His articles have been published Scientific American, The San Francisco Chronicle and Gizmodo, among other places. He has a Ph.D.| Quanta Magazine
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