/mg/ maths general: packed sphere edition

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https://actu.epfl.ch/news/maryna-viazovska-receives-the-2019-fermat-prize-5/
>The 2019 Fermat prize in mathematics has been awarded to Professor Maryna Viazovska, who holds EPFL’s Chair of Number Theory, for her solution to the sphere packing problem. The Fermat prize of mathematics is a bi-annual named after the famous French mathematician Pierre de Fermat. The prize rewards mathematicians under 45 years old whose research words are in Number Theory, analytic geometry, probability and research related to the variational principles.

>Maryna Viazovska’s solution to the sphere packing problem in dimension 8 and in dimension 24 brought her worldwide fame and a large number of awards, such as the Salem Prize, the New Horizons in mathematics prize or more recently the Satter Prize.