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Besicovitch
A mathematician who proved that in the Kakeya needle problem the swept area can be made arbitrarily small, laying the foundation for the theory of Kakeya sets.
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Oct 11
Besicovitch proved that the area of a Kakeya set can be arbitrarily small or even zero, while still accommodating a unit-length needle in every direction.
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