Abstract
This is an introduction, aimed at a general mathematical audience, to recent work of Aprodu, Farkas, Papadima, Raicu, and Weyman. These authors established a long-standing folk conjecture concerning the equations defining the tangent developable surface of the rational normal curve. This in turn led to a new proof of a fundamental theorem of Voisin on the syzygies of generic canonical curves. The present note, which is the write-up of a talk given by the second author at the Current Events seminar at the 2019 JMM, surveys this circle of ideas.
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