Historical overview of the Kepler conjecture

Discrete and Computational Geometry

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-20

  Hales, Thomas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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EID: 33744726446     PISSN: 01795376     EISSN: 14320444     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00454-005-1210-2     Document Type: Article

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