Mathematician:Thomas Callister Hales
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Mathematician
American mathematician working in the areas of representation theory, discrete geometry, and formal verification.
Known for his work on the Langlands program and contribution to the proof of the fundamental lemma over the group $\map {\mathrm {Sp} } 4$
Settled the Kepler's Conjecture on the density of sphere packings and the honeycomb conjecture.
Nationality
American
History
- Born: June 4, 1958 in San Antonio, Texas
Theorems and Definitions
- Proved Kepler's Conjecture
Publications
- 1994: The status of the Kepler conjecture (Math. Intell. Vol. 16, no. 3: pp. 47 – 58)
- 2001: The Honeycomb Conjecture (Discrete Comput. Geom. Vol. 25, no. 1: pp. 1 – 22)
- 2005: A proof of the Kepler conjecture (Ann. Math. Vol. 162, no. 3: pp. 1065 – 1185)
- 2006: Historical overview of the Kepler conjecture (Discrete Comput. Geom. Vol. 36, no. 1: pp. 5 – 20)
- 2007: Jordan’s Proof of the Jordan Curve Theorem (Studies in Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric Vol. 10, no. 23: pp. 45 – 60)