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380-year-old Descartes circle problem finally solved with help from physics
Using advanced mathematical tools inspired by physics, the team has derived a general equation for any number of tangent ...
Descartes’ Unfinished Mystery: Mathematicians Solve 380-Year-Old Geometry Problem
Monash University researchers have extended Descartes’ Circle Theorem by finding a general equation for any number of tangent ...
Mathematicians Wrote a Proof for a 100-Year-Old Problem—and May Have Just Changed Geometry
The Kakeya set—named for its discoverer Sōichi Kakeya—was complicated by a subsequent mathematician named Abram Samoilovitch ...
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Mathematicians Solve Decades-Old Geometry Problem About Spinning a Needle That Had Long Puzzled the Field
A new proof solves the “Kakeya conjecture” in three dimensions, opening up a new set of possibilities for mathematics, from computer science to cryptography ...