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Kakeya's problem, or how to move a needle in the minimum of space
… areas precisely. This is known as Kakeya's conjecture. Hong Wang, permanent professor of mathematics at IHES and … the needle is no longer on a table but floating in three-dimensional space, they have solved a question that … As a result of his work, these objects were named “Kakeya sets”. Two years later, Abram Besicovitch, a Russian …
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