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| Sphere Packing Solved in Higher Dimensions (quantamagazine.org) | ||
| recommended by 2 users | 2016 | 218 points by digital55 | mathematics | original thread | | ||
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| CarolineW Dec 28, 2016 | on: Sphere Packing Solved in Higher Dimensions | context |
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mturmon May 31, 2018 | on: Sphere Packing Solved in Higher Dimensions (2016) | context
As accessible on the "past" link above, there was a good discussion earlier on this solution of sphere-packing in d = 8 and d = 24, featuring an epic explanatory comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11394534 |
This was posted 9 months ago when the result first came out, but it's just resurfaced in my feed as one of the major mathematical breakthroughs of 2016, so I thought I'd repost it. The discussion last time[0] was significant and definitely worth reading, but is now closed, so any further comments can be added here.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11394534