An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated

24/01/2024 16 min
An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated

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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. at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Slow Burn” by Kevin MacLeod.