Explore our content on a long-standing problem in topology that has only recently been solved.

We continue our journey towards a proof of the Kervaire invariant problem.

Wand to expand your horizon? Then discover one of the hardest problems in algebraic topology which has only recently been solved: the Kervaire invariant problem.

In this episode of Maths on the Move Zhouli Xu takes us on a trip into higher dimensions, retracing some of the long, and sometimes arduous, journey towards a proof of the Kervaire invariant problem.

We can't visualise it, but we can still think about it! And there are clever ways of glimpsing what it might look like.

In normal life higher dimensions smack of science fiction, but in mathematics they are nothing out of the ordinary.