Dense Sphere Packings

by Thomas Hales

The 400-year-old Kepler conjecture asserts that no packing of congruent balls in three dimensions can have a density exceeding the familiar pyramid-shaped cannonball arrangement. In this book, a new proof of the conjecture is presented that makes it accessible for the first time to a broad mathematical audience. The book also presents solutions to other previously unresolved conjectures in discrete geometry, including the strong dodecahedral conjecture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521617707
• ISBN13: 9780521617703
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"