The colossal book of mathematics : classic puzzles, paradoxes, and problems : number theory, algebra, geometry, probability, topology, game theory, infinity, and other topics of recreational…

By M. Gardner. 2001

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• Jammed hard-particle packings: From Kepler to Bernal and beyond (2010, result): “These results are consistent with a conjecture of Ulam who proposed without any justification [in a private communication to Martin Gardner (Gardner, 2001)] that the optimal packing fraction for congruent sphere packings is smaller than that for any other convex body.”