Kepler's Conjecture: How Some of the Greatest Minds in History Helped Solve One of the Oldest Math Problems in the World
By George G. Szpiro. 2003
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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Theoretical Computer Science
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Citations in the corpus
- The Algorithm Design Manual (2020, background): “This conjecture was finally settled by Hales and Ferguson in 1998; see [Szp03] for an exposition.”
- Kissing numbers, sphere packings, and some unexpected proofs (2004, unknown): “It is a simple exercise (recommended) to prove, for dimension two, that the “obvious” hexagonal packing of equal-sized disks (two-dimensional balls) in the plane—a lattice packing in which each disk touches κ(2) = 6 others—is the optimal lattice packing and to compute its density.”