Exhibit 3743 · Magazine

Quanta Magazine: An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated

Quanta Magazine

Mathematicians would like to know the number of maps between spaces of any difference in dimension. They’ve managed to compute the number of maps for almost all differences in dimension up to 100: There are 24 maps between spheres when the difference is 20, and 3,144,960 when it’s 23.

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