[HN Gopher] The three-dimensional Kakeya conjecture, after Wang ...
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The three-dimensional Kakeya conjecture, after Wang and Zahl
Author : robinhouston
Score : 45 points
Date : 2025-02-27 16:53 UTC (3 days ago)
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| Y_Y wrote:
| The original Kakeya problem is a really nice one for students, in
| that it's easy to understand and visualise, but has an
| unintuitive answer.
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| In this sense it's like Borel-Kolmogorov and imho much better
| than Banach-Tarski which is trotted out frequently, but actually
| very difficult to understand (both relatively and absolutely).
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakeya_set#Kakeya_conjecture
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borel%E2%80%93Kolmogorov_parad...
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