Audio Edition: ‘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 dimensions illuminates a whole crop of related problems.

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