Hacker News with Generative AI: Conjecture

'Once in a Century' Proof Settles Math's Kakeya Conjecture (quantamagazine.org)
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.
Mathematics, Conjecture, Proof, Geometry
104 points by pseudolus 42 days ago | 29 comments
'Once in a Century' Proof Settles Math's Kakeya Conjecture (quantamagazine.org)
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.
Mathematics, Conjecture, Science
4 points by isaacfrond 43 days ago | 1 comments
The three-dimensional Kakeya conjecture, after Wang and Zahl (wordpress.com)
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!
Mathematics, Conjecture, Geometry
47 points by robinhouston 58 days ago | 1 comments
The bunkbed conjecture is false (wordpress.com)
The bunkbed conjecture (BBC) is a basic claim about random subgraphs.
Mathematics, Graph Theory, Conjecture
189 points by surprisetalk 206 days ago | 71 comments
Proof of geometric Langlands conjecture so complex almost no one can explain it (newscientist.com)
Mathematics, Theoretical Physics, Conjecture, Proof
63 points by isaacfrond 338 days ago | 62 comments