33-year-old Wei Dongyi has been appointed as an associate professor at Peking University, becoming one of the youngest associate professors at the university. He and his team have verified the proof of the Wang-Hong Kakeya conjecture.
33-year-old Wei Dongyi has been appointed as an associate professor at Peking University, becoming one of the youngest associate professors at the university. He and his team have verified the proof of the Wang-Hong Kakeya conjecture.
Peking University
Peking University, founded in 1898 as the Imperial University of Peking, is one of China’s oldest and most prestigious institutions of higher education. It played a central role in the development of modern Chinese thought and was a key site during the New Culture Movement and the May Fourth Movement. Today, it is renowned for its beautiful campus and its leading role in academic research.
Wang-Hong Kakeya conjecture
The Wang-Hong Kakeya conjecture is a mathematical problem in geometric measure theory, not a physical place or cultural site. It proposes that a Kakeya set—a set in which a unit line segment can be rotated 360 degrees—in higher-dimensional spaces must have a certain minimum Minkowski dimension. This conjecture builds upon the classical Kakeya conjecture and remains an open problem in mathematics.
