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Dense sphere packings : a blueprint for formal proofs /

"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 mat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hales, Thomas Callister
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Series:London Mathematical Society lecture note series ; 400.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Close packing
  • 2. Trigonometry
  • 3. Volume
  • 4. Hypermap
  • 5. Fan
  • 6. Packing - -7. Local fan
  • 8. Tame hypermap.