The change of plans came on a road trip. On a beautiful day last April, the mathematicians Rachel Greenfeld and Sarah Peluse set out from their home institution, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, heading to Rochester, New York, where both were scheduled to give talks the next day.
They had been struggling for nearly two years with an important conjecture in harmonic analysis, the field that studies how to break complex signals apart into their component frequencies. Together with a third collaborator, Marina Iliopoulou, they were studying a version of the problem in which the component frequencies are represented as points in a plane whose distances from each other are related to integers. their techniques had come up short.
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