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Comment by feyman_r

5 days ago

This article explains the Kakeya Conjecture in amazing detail and understandability: https://www.quantamagazine.org/hong-wang-wins-2026-fields-me...

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CamperBob2  5 days ago

Neat article. I still don't grok the Kakeya Conjecture particularly well, but thanks to the article I now understand something I never understood before, which is the idea of fractional dimensionality and what fractals have to do with it.

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