Articles by Daria Pchelina

Density of sphere packings: from coins to oranges

-- Daria Pchelina (LIPN, Université Paris 13)

summary: How to stack an infinite number of oranges to maximize the proportion of the covered space? Kepler conjectured that the "cannonball" packing is an optimal way to do it. This conjecture took almost 400 years to prove and the proof of Hales and Ferguson consists of 6 papers and ...