Hancock, N.H. – Anyone faced with the task of building a freestanding pile of spheres quickly discovers an obvious solution: Start by laying out the densest possible two-dimensional packing and then ...
This improvisational approach nonetheless pays dividends. In recent months AI models have proved capable of solving ...
In 2016, a mathematician quietly solved a problem that had remained open since the time of Isaac Newton and Johannes Kepler. Her name is Maryna Viazovska. The problem is known as the sphere packing ...