{"id":9418,"date":"2025-06-23T10:31:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T10:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=9418"},"modified":"2025-06-23T10:31:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T10:31:34","slug":"how-bees-beer-cans-and-data-solve-the-same-packing-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=9418","title":{"rendered":"How Bees, Beer Cans and Data Solve the Same Packing Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"g-screenreader\">Animation of the same plastic spheres disappearing one at a time.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text svelte-w84vmj\">A holy grail in pure mathematics is sphere packing in higher dimensions. Almost nothing has been rigorously proven about it, except in dimensions 1, 2 and 3. <\/p>\n<p class=\"g-text svelte-w84vmj\">That\u2019s why it was such a breakthrough when, in 2016, a young Ukrainian mathematician named Maryna Viazovska solved the sphere-packing problem in eight dimensions, and later, with collaborators, in 24 dimensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animation of the same plastic spheres disappearing one at a time. A holy grail in pure mathematics is sphere packing in higher dimensions. Almost nothing has been rigorously proven about it, except in dimensions 1, 2 and 3. That\u2019s why it was such a breakthrough when, in 2016, a young Ukrainian mathematician named Maryna Viazovska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[1647,1646,1648,1111,1650,1651,1649],"class_list":{"0":"post-9418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-beer","9":"tag-bees","10":"tag-cans","11":"tag-data","12":"tag-packing","13":"tag-problem","14":"tag-solve"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}