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This issue of Discrete & Computational Geometry contains the detailed proof by T. Hales and S.P. Ferguson of the Kepler conjecture that the densest packing of three-dimensional Euclidean space by equal spheres is attained by "cannonball" packing. This is a landmark result. This conjecture, formulated by Kepler in 1611, was stated in Hilbert's formulation of his 18th problem [8]. The proof consists of mathematical arguments and a massive computer verification of many inequalities.
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Toth, G., Lagaria, J. Guest Editors' Foreword. Discrete Comput Geom 36, 1–3 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00454-005-1209-8
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