How Teen Mathematician Hannah Cairo Disproved a Major Conjecture in Harmonic Analysis
When Hannah Cairo was 17 years old, she disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a long-standing guess…
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The Kakeya Conjecture, a Decades-Old Math Problem, Is Solved in Three Dimensions
Mathematicians Solve Decades-Old Spinning Needle PuzzleFor a long time, the Kakeya conjecture, which involves rotating…
Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture
In a 1985 paper, the computer scientist Andrew Yao, who would go on to win…
Mathematicians Just Debunked the ‘Bunkbed Conjecture’
Their result shows the importance of not taking anything for granted, said Noga Alon, a…
Geometric Langlands conjecture: Incredible maths proof is so complex that almost no one can explain it
The Langlands programme aims to link different areas of mathematicsAndrew Ostrovsky/iStockphoto/Getty Images Mathematicians have proved…