Mathematicians have struggled to prove Falconer’s conjecture, a simple but far-reaching hypothesis about the distances between points. They’re finally getting close. Scatter three points in a plane, ...

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Mathematicians have illuminated what sets of points can look like if the distances between them are all whole numbers. The change of plans came on a road trip. On a beautiful day last April, the ...