The Kakeya set—named for its discoverer Sōichi Kakeya—was complicated by a subsequent mathematician named Abram Samoilovitch ...

The problem involves a subfield called geometric measure theory ... itself when applied to a two-dimensional shape, turning a line segment into a straw. The size of those tubes can then be ...

Back to top Perpendicular bisector construction of a line segment Follow the instructions and draw this perpendicular bisector of a line segment construction. Without changing the distance between ...

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In a special question in geometry called a Kakeya set ... unto itself when applied to a two-dimensional shape, turning a line segment into a straw. The size of those tubes can then be tuned ...

Two mathematicians now say they’ve made progress on a very old unsolved math problem. The problem involves a subfield called geometric measure theory, in which sets of objects are generalized in an ...