The most famous packing problem concerns spheres. In 1611, the astronomer Johannes Kepler proposed that the densest way to ...

How Pythagoras turned math into a tool for understanding reality. The ‘music of the spheres’ was born from the effort to use numbers to explain the universe. By Tom Siegfried.

Uniformly sized, structured spherical particles can be made in large quantities and across a wide range of sizes by an ingenious technique involving heating and drawing out multi-component fibres.

The Death Star is a near-perfect sphere, a hundred miles across, with a planet-vaporizing laser. In Orlin's version, Lord Vader nixed design shapes like pyramids, cubes, or a cylindrical Death ...

Hobbyist Finds Math’s Elusive ‘Einstein’ Tile And yet, as huge as those numbers are, the disproof of the telescope conjecture means there are many, many more. The disproof means there are more maps ...

A second plane of hard spheres is now constructed such that the spheres form concentric pentagons with an even number of spheres per pentagon ... Coxeter, H. S. M., Illinois J. Math., 2, 746 (1958).

But Li suspected that there was a chance that, by changing some of the points in the lattice in this way, she might be able to distort it just enough to accommodate more spheres. When she built her ...

PORT EDWARDS — Programming robots is not the traditional way for students to learn arithmetic, but that's exactly how a Port Edwards class is learning new math concepts. Port Edwards Elementary ...

Where math and Islamic art collide. ‘Music of the Spheres’: The bouncing bullets of beauty and math. Where math and Islamic art collide ...

Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Staff Writer Dan Maloney as they review the top hacks for the week. It was a real retro-fest this time, with a C64 built from (mostly) new parts, a… ...

Maybe that’s why Music of the Spheres, a $5 game by Hamish Todd (available now on Desura and Steam Greenli ... You don’t have to know much about music to understand its sound. Music is a ...

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