Artificial intelligence has formally verified the prizewinning proof that solved the sphere packing problem in eight dimensions, a result closely tied to Maryna Viazovska’s Fields Medal. The ...

When Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska received a Fields Medal—widely regarded as the Nobel Prize for mathematics—in July 2022, it was big news. Not only was she the second woman to accept the ...

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 ...