The Kakeya set—named for its discoverer Sōichi Kakeya—was complicated by a subsequent mathematician named Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch. Besicovitch introduced the idea that a Kakeya set moved into a ...

I find all these constructions very interesting, and this latest one is very interesting as well.” Supermazes would inhabit ...

A new proof solves the “Kakeya conjecture” in three dimensions, opening up a new set of possibilities for mathematics, from computer science to cryptography ...

By solving part of the Langlands program, a mathematical proof that was long thought to be unachievable, Dennis Gaitsgory ...

The previously-announced Max-based spinoff for The Big Bang Theory is officially underway as cast members have been unveiled. Fans of the original CBS comedy will be pleased that among these cast ...

This early-stage finding is at odds with the current theory which was developed in part by Albert Einstein. More data is needed to confirm these results, but even some of the most cautious and ...

Lately, one particularly adrenaline-inducing travel tip has made major waves on social media: Enter the “airport theory,” which posits that you need only arrive at the airport by 15 or 20 ...

The theory lets us address the biological significance of the constrained joint and provides testable predictions of new myosin behaviors, including the stomp distribution and the run length under off ...

Neural populations from various sensory regions demonstrate dynamic range adaptation in response to changes in the statistical distribution of their input stimuli. These adaptations help optimize the ...