[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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