In 1917, the Japanese mathematician Sōichi Kakeya posed what at first seemed like nothing more than a fun exercise in geometry. Lay an infinitely thin, inch-long needle on a flat surface, then rotate ...
Hong Wang, an associate professor at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, presenting her work on the Kakeya conjecture on March 10, 2025. Credit: David Song/NYU. Mathematicians from New ...
The Department of Mathematics of DAV College organised a lecture on the “Kakeya needle problem” today. Prof Shobha Madaan from the IISER, Mohali, was the keynote speaker at the event. Madaan has ...
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