Kugelpackungsproblem in Dimension 8 gelöst
[Deutsche Version siehe unten] Maryna S. Viazovska, Dirichlet-Postdoc at Berlin Mathematical School, seems to have solved the hypersphere packing problem for dimension eight. In this dimension, a packing of balls can not cover more than 25.367 percent of the space, that is a density of pi^4/384. The question of how…