A Conceptual Breakthrough in Sphere Packing
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Henry Cohn is principal researcher at Microsoft Research New England and adjunct professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His e-mail address is cohn@ microsoft.com. For permission to reprint this article, please contact: reprint-permission@ams.org. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/noti1474 On March 14, 2016, the world of mathematics received an extraordinary Pi Day surprise when Maryna Viazovska posted to the arXiv a solution of the sphere packing problem in eight dimensions [15]. Her proof shows that the E8 root lattice is the densest sphere packing in eight dimensions, via a beautiful and conceptually simple
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تاریخ انتشار 2016