The Kepler Conjecture The Hales-Ferguson Proof /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lagarias, Jeffrey C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Mathematical physics.; Convex geometry.; Discrete geometry.; Convex and Discrete Geometry.; Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences.

The Kepler conjecture, one of geometry's oldest unsolved problems, was formulated in 1611 by Johannes Kepler and mentioned by Hilbert in his famous 1900 problem list. The Kepler conjecture states that the densest packing of three-dimensional Euclidean space by equal spheres is attained by the “...