Mathematicians Identify Threshold at Which Shapes Give Way 5 years ago
A key limitation of Cao and Inauen’s paper is that it requires embedding a shape into eight-dimensional space, rather than the three-dimensional space Gromov had in mind. With extra dimensions, the mathematicians gained more room to add twists, which made the problem easier.
Mathematicians Identify Threshold at Which Shapes Give Way [In 8 Dimensions!]