Conjecture, is an intriguing map of the mind, a journey into the “divine madness” that compels a human to spend a decade ...

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. In early June, buzz built as ...

Watanabe invented a new way of distinguishing shapes on his way to solving the last open case of the Smale conjecture, a central question in topology about symmetries of the sphere. In a burst of work ...