Sentences with phrase «kepler conjecture»
The precise geometric and organic forms of the two sculptures on view by John Duff (American, b. 1943) are from the series titled «Inside the Kepler Conjecture,» referring to the complex mathematical theories proposed by Johannes Kepler, a 16th century astronomer who was the first to explain planetary movement.
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«Mathematicians deliver formal proof of Kepler Conjecture.»
A team led by mathematician Thomas Hales has delivered a formal proof of the Kepler Conjecture, which is the definitive resolution of a problem that had gone unsolved for more than 300 years.
The Kepler Conjecture was a famous problem in discrete geometry, which asked for the most efficient way to cram spheres into a given space.
It's curious that the Kepler conjecture in eight dimensions is much easier to solve than the Kepler conjecture in three dimensions.
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Never mind a delay of weeks or months — pity poor Thomas Hales, an American mathematician who has been waiting for five years to hear whether the mathematical community has accepted his 1998 proof of astronomer Johannes Kepler's 390 - year - old conjecture that the most efficient way to pack equal - size spheres (such as cannonballs on a ship, which is how the question arose) is to stack them in the familiar pyramid fashion that greengrocers use to stack oranges on a counter.
Most problems of this kind are named after whoever first posed them — examples are the Riemann hypothesis, the Poincare conjecture, the Kepler problem.