Mathematicians Of The Day

24th September



On this day in 2017, Maryna Viazovska was given a Clay Research Award in recognition of her groundbreaking work on sphere-packing problems in eight and twenty-four dimensions. In particular, she proved that the E8E_8 lattice is an optimal solution in eight dimensions.

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Quotation of the day

From Girolamo Cardano
Quinquies exscriptus, maneat tot millibus annis.

I wrote it out five times, may it last the same number of millennia.
The final line of Ars magna.