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Statistics Postdoc Tames Decades-Old Geometry Problem

The Quanta Podcast

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Bourgin's Hyperprane Conjecture

High dimensional convex shapes are a central object of study, not just for pure mathematicians. Ronan el dan is a high dimensional geometer at the whitsman institute. He says Bourgan's problem boils down to this simple question.

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