• The Kepler conjecture, named after the 17th-century mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler, is a mathematical theorem about sphere packing in three-dimensional...
    22 KB (2,700 words) - 01:20, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ulam's packing conjecture
    conjecture is therefore related to the Kepler conjecture about sphere packing. Since the solution to the Kepler conjecture establishes that identical balls...
    4 KB (514 words) - 16:02, 19 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thomas Callister Hales
    discrete geometry, he settled the Kepler conjecture on the density of sphere packings and the honeycomb conjecture. In 2014, he announced the completion...
    11 KB (962 words) - 16:59, 17 May 2024
  • many spheres has a longer history of investigation, from which the Kepler conjecture is most well-known. Atoms in crystal structures can be simplistically...
    16 KB (2,641 words) - 03:03, 10 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Johannes Kepler
    later became known as the Kepler conjecture, a statement about the most efficient arrangement for packing spheres. Kepler wrote the influential mathematical...
    102 KB (12,600 words) - 11:52, 25 September 2024
  • Ullmo, 1998, Shou-Wu Zhang, 1998) Kepler conjecture (Samuel Ferguson, Thomas Callister Hales, 1998) Dodecahedral conjecture (Thomas Callister Hales, Sean...
    191 KB (19,618 words) - 21:51, 26 September 2024
  • equivalent to the Kepler conjecture. In 1998, American mathematician Thomas Callister Hales gave a computer-aided proof of the Kepler conjecture. It shows that...
    3 KB (336 words) - 09:41, 29 May 2024
  • conjecture Kelvin's conjecture Kouchnirenko's conjecture Mertens conjecture PĆ³lya conjecture, 1919 (1958) Ragsdale conjecture Schoenflies conjecture (disproved...
    36 KB (1,566 words) - 06:04, 20 July 2024
  • complexity theory, information theory, and graph theory. In 1998, the Kepler conjecture on sphere packing seemed to also be partially proven by computer....
    161 KB (15,781 words) - 13:14, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Close-packing of equal spheres
    including structures that are aperiodic in the stacking direction. The Kepler conjecture states that this is the highest density that can be achieved by any...
    19 KB (2,429 words) - 15:35, 24 September 2024