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 ...

More than 2,300 years ago, Aristotle was wrong. Now, in the past year, a flurry of academic activity is suddenly zooming in on an answer to a problem akin to wondering how many people can fit into a ...

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 ...