Title: The Kepler Conjecture
Speaker: Professor Tom Hales
Speaker Info: University of Michigan
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In 1611, Kepler asserted that no packing of congruent spheres has density greater than the face-centered cubic packing. This assertion, the Kepler conjecture, is the oldest problem in discrete geometry. In 1831 Gauss determined the densest lattice packing of spheres. Various bounds on the density of a sphere packing have been obtained in the 20th century. This talk will describe a recent proof of the Kepler conjecture.Date: Friday, November 13, 1998