Mathematicians move the needle on the Kakeya conjecture, a decades-old geometric problem

Mathematicians from New York University and the University of British Columbia have resolved a decades-old geometric problem, ...
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Math's "Bunkbed Conjecture" Has Been Proven False After 40 Years

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...
Nature

Disproving the Peres conjecture by showing Bell nonlocality from bound entanglement

Quantum entanglement has a central role in many areas of physics. To grasp the essence of this phenomenon, it is fundamental to understand how different manifestations of entanglement relate to each ...
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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 in the field of harmonic analysis about how waves behave on curved surfaces. The conjecture ...