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What is the smallest space in which a needle can be rotated to point in the opposite direction? This mathematician has finally solved the Kakeya conjecture

Manuel Ansede|El Escorial|Jul 14, 2025 - 15:59 CEST

China’s Hong Wang has just accomplished one of the greatest mathematical achievements of the 21st century

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A 17-year-old teen refutes a mathematical conjecture proposed 40 years ago

Ágata A. Timón|Jul 01, 2025 - 14:16 CEST

Hannah Cairo has solved the so-called Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a problem in harmonic analysis closely linked to other central results in the field. This fall, she will begin her doctoral studies at the University of Maryland

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