{"id":208524,"date":"2025-03-13T03:10:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T08:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/mathematicians-move-the-needle-on-the-kakeya-conjecture-a-decades-old-geometric-problem"},"modified":"2025-03-13T03:10:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T08:10:54","slug":"mathematicians-move-the-needle-on-the-kakeya-conjecture-a-decades-old-geometric-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/mathematicians-move-the-needle-on-the-kakeya-conjecture-a-decades-old-geometric-problem","title":{"rendered":"Mathematicians move the needle on the Kakeya conjecture, a decades-old geometric problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mathematicians-move-the-needle-on-the-kakeya-conjecture-a-decades-old-geometric-problem.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mathematicians from New York University and the University of British Columbia have resolved a decades-old geometric problem, the Kakeya conjecture in 3D, which studies the shape left behind by a needle moving in multiple directions.<\/p>\n<p>The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2502.17655\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> on the <i>arXiv<\/i> preprint server.<\/p>\n<p>The Kakeya conjecture was inspired by a problem asked in 1917 by Japanese mathematician S\u014dichi Kakeya: What is the region of smallest possible area in which it is possible to rotate a needle 180 degrees in the plane? Such regions are called Kakeya needle sets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematicians from New York University and the University of British Columbia have resolved a decades-old geometric problem, the Kakeya conjecture in 3D, which studies the shape left behind by a needle moving in multiple directions. The research is published on the arXiv preprint server. The Kakeya conjecture was inspired by a problem asked in 1917 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}