@theworldbuiltbywomen: For more than 400 years, even Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton could not solve this problem. The problem at hand is sphere packing—how to arrange spheres as tightly as possible, without any extra space between them. In three dimensions, this resembles a pyramid of oranges at the grocery store, but mathematically proving that this is the best approach has proven incredibly difficult. In 2016, Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Vyazovska made a breakthrough. She solved this problem not for the familiar three-dimensional world, but for eight-dimensional space. The most astonishing proof took up only 23 pages. For this discovery, Vyazovskaya received the Fields Medal, the highest honor in mathematics. And this isn't just a nice theory. It's precisely this kind of research that helps improve data transmission, create error-correcting codes, and make space communications more reliable. Sometimes the most important discoveries happen in spaces you can't imagine. #feminism #femalepower #womeninmath #mathematics

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