Kepler's Conjecture: How Some of the Greatest Minds in History Helped Solve One of the Oldest Math Problems in the World NAIBA Book of the Year for Nonfiction (2018) 203 miles of levees that

203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River

and the Illusion of Transparency--is like a psychology course with all the boring parts taken out

young and rebellious

recounting his life before he disappeared into U

for some reason

Kepler's Conjecture: How Some of the Greatest Minds in History Helped Solve One of the Oldest Math Problems in the World NAIBA Book of the Year for Nonfiction (2018) 203 miles of levees thatThe fascinating story of a problem that perplexed mathematicians for nearly 400 years. In 1611, Johannes Kepler proposed that the best way to pack spheres as densely as possible was to pile them up in the same way that grocers stack oranges or tomatoes. This proposition, known as Kepler's Conjecture, seemed obvious to everyone except mathematicians, who seldom take anyone's word for anything. In the tradition of Fermat's Enigma, George Szpiro shows