It all starts with something called the Kakeya conjecture. A “conjecture” is a math guess—an idea that seems true, but nobody ...

Several prominent phenomena of condensed matter, exemplified by nonlinear transport, flat-band superconductivity, and ...

The Kakeya set—named for its discoverer Sōichi Kakeya—was complicated by a subsequent mathematician named Abram Samoilovitch ...

Mathematicians have finally solved a geometry problem that has puzzled the field for decades. The question was proposed by ...