# Recent progress on the Kakeya conjecture

@article{Katz2000RecentPO,
title={Recent progress on the Kakeya conjecture},
author={Nets Hawk Katz and Terence Tao},
journal={Publicacions Matematiques},
year={2000},
volume={46},
pages={161-179}
}
• Published 2000
• Mathematics
• Publicacions Matematiques
We survey recent developments on the Kakeya problem. [Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, El Escorial (Madrid), 2002].
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