Kepler's conjecture confirmed

Neil J. A. Sloane ()
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Nature, 1998, vol. 395, issue 6701, 435-436

Abstract: One of the oldest unsolved problems in mathematics appears to have been settled. On 9 August, Thomas C. Hales announced that he had proved Kepler's assertion of 1611 that no packing of spheres can be denser than a face-centred-cubic lattice.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1038/26609

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