After just a few months of work, a complete newcomer to the world of sphere packing has solved one of its biggest open ...

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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 ...

Harvard might be America’s most elite university — but now it’s offering remedial math classes. The school’s math department is providing a new scaled-back math class for freshmen who are ...

Dyson spheres and rings could exist in the universe, ... McInnes, instead, uses his math definitions to highlight that there are small areas where his focal-point phenomena can work.