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Packing spheres
We talk to Maryna Viazovska, who in 2016 made a breakthrough in the theory of sphere packings.
Content about “ Kepler's conjecture
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Packing spheres
How to arrange oranges in higher dimensions.
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Packing balls in higher dimensions
How to optimally fill a box with eight-dimensional oranges.
News story
In the eye of the chicken
How chickens' eyes solve a subtle maths problem.
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Thomas Harriot: A lost pioneer
It's International Year of Astronomy and all eyes are on Galileo Galilei, whose astronomical observations 400 years ago revolutionised our understanding of the Universe. But few people know that Galileo wasn't the first to build a telescope and turn it on the stars. That honour falls to a little-known mathematician called Thomas Harriot, who excelled in many other ways too. Anna Faherty
takes us on a tour of his work.
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Editorial
- Happy birthday Plus! — celebrating 10 years of bringing mathematics to life
- Plus 10 — what were the greatest mathematical advances in the last decade?
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Welcome to the maths lab
Has mathematics become an experimental science?
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Mathematical mysteries: Kepler's conjecture
Sir Walter Raleigh is perhaps best known for laying down his cloak in the mud for Queen Elizabeth I. But, he also started a mathematical quest which to this day remains unsolved.