An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated

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An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated

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Jan 24, 2024

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The telescope conjecture gave mathematicians a handle on ways to map one sphere to another. Now that it has been disproved, the universe of shapes has exploded. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Slow Burn” by Kevin MacLeod.

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