She solved a 400-year-old problem that Newton and Kepler couldn’t: Meet the Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska |
Imagine trying to stack oranges as tightly as possible so that no space is wasted. Simple enough in a grocery store. Now imagine doing it in a world with eight dimensions, a space that exists not in physical reality but in the abstract architecture of mathematics, and proving, beyond any doubt, that you have found…