On a convex body with odd Hadwiger number (Q949845)

The Hadwiger number \(H(K)\), also called (translative) kissing number, of a convex body \(K\) is the maximum number of mutually non-overlapping translates of \(K\) that can touch \(K\). In the plane it is known that \(H(K)\) is either \(6\) or \(8\), and Grünbaum raised the question whether it is always an even number. In the paper under review the author gives a nice construction of a 3-dimensional body \(K\) with an odd Hadwiger number, namely \(H(K)=15\). This result improves on an earlier and unpublished construction of I.~Talata of a body with \(H(K)=17\).