IN connexion with Bernal's theory of liquids, Scott 1 has determined the packing density of equal spheres by experiments with steel balls. In this laboratory we were interested in the dense random ...

After just a few months of work, a complete newcomer to the world of sphere packing has solved one of its biggest open problems. In math, the search for optimal patterns never ends. The sphere-packing ...

Imagine placing oranges or tennis balls into a rigid container. How can the balls be arranged such that they occupy the largest volume fraction of the container, otherwise known as the largest packing ...