Pustam | पुस्तम | পুস্তম🇳🇵<p>33-year-old mathematician Wang Hong from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (CIMS-NYU) has proved the century-old Kakeya conjecture in three dimensions with collaborator Joshua Zahl!</p><p>The problem is rooted in the question: what's the smallest area that an infinitely thin needle can sweep out if it has to be turned to point in every possible direction?</p><p>News:<br>[1] <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3300958/chinese-maths-star-wang-hong-solves-infamous-geometry-problem" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scmp.com/news/china/science/ar</span><span class="invisible">ticle/3300958/chinese-maths-star-wang-hong-solves-infamous-geometry-problem</span></a><br>[2] <a href="https://english.jagran.com/world/chinese-student-wang-hong-cracked-an-impossible-geometry-puzzle-that-stumped-mathematicians-for-over-a-century-10221886" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">english.jagran.com/world/chine</span><span class="invisible">se-student-wang-hong-cracked-an-impossible-geometry-puzzle-that-stumped-mathematicians-for-over-a-century-10221886</span></a></p><p>2023 piece from Quanta Magazine on their earlier progress on the problem:<br><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-proof-threads-the-needle-on-a-sticky-geometry-problem-20230711/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">quantamagazine.org/new-proof-t</span><span class="invisible">hreads-the-needle-on-a-sticky-geometry-problem-20230711/</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tao</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/WangHong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WangHong</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/CIMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CIMS</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/NYU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NYU</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/JoshuaZahl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JoshuaZahl</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Kakeya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kakeya</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/KakeyaConjecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KakeyaConjecture</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ThreeDimensions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThreeDimensions</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Needle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Needle</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Geometry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Geometry</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/QuantaMagazine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QuantaMagazine</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Conjecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conjecture</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/AdvancingMaths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdvancingMaths</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maths</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/CenturyOld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CenturyOld</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Tao" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tao</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/TerenceTao" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TerenceTao</span></a></p>