Dense Sphere Packings: A Blueprint for Formal Proofs

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• 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"