Back in 2015, I reported some progress on this difficult problem in plane geometry. I’m happy to report some more.
First, remember the story. A subset of the plane has diameter 1 if the distance between any two points in this set is ≤ 1. A a universal covering is a convex subset of the plane that can cover a translated, reflected and/or rotated version of every subset of the plane with diameter 1. In 1914, the famous mathematician Henri Lebesgue sent a letter to a fellow named Pál, challengin...
Published on October 07, 2018 07:08