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#68 Hunting through higher dimensions with Zhouli Xu

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Living Proof: the Isaac Newton Institute podcast
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Jul 2, 2025
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Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the latest episode of Living Proof, our podcast produced in collaboration with Plus.maths.org– you can find all the content from the collaboration here. On May 30th 2024 seminar goers at Princeton University witnessed a thrilling moment. The mathematician Zhouli Xu of the University of California, LA, announced that, together with colleagues he had sorted out the 126th dimension. Not in general, but in regards to a problem that has taunted mathematicians since the ...