Kakeya Conjecture in R^3 Resolved by Hong Wang, Building on Her Fields Medal Work
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-07
Hong Wang and collaborators have resolved the Kakeya conjecture in R^3, a major milestone in harmonic analysis and geometric measure theory. Wang's 2025 Fields Medal cited her progress on exactly this problem.
Commenters called it one of the last great human-only results, noting how quickly AI is encroaching on frontier mathematics.
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