The main subject of interest of this paper is the problem of estimating \(\vert A_9\vert \) , which is the modulus of the ninth coefficient of the inverse of a convex function belonging to the class \(\mathcal {K}\) . It was shown almost 50 years ago that \(\vert A_n\vert \) , where \(n\ge 10\) , can exceed 1. On the other hand, it is known that \(\vert A_n\vert \le 1\) for n ranging from 2 to 8. Until now, the problem of finding a sharp bound of \(\vert A_9\vert \) has been unsolved. This problem is solved in this paper. Some related problems are also formulated.