The problem of thirteen spheres -- a proof for undergraduates

DOI10.1016/J.EJC.2006.06.019MaRDI QIDQ2372436zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 27 July 2007

Published in European Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejc.2006.06.019

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20)

Review text

The author presents a proof of the fact that a unit sphere cannot be touched by more than 12 other unit spheres which is elementary in the sense that it uses only elementary spherical geometry. The level of mathematical sophistication required by the proof is quite high. The paper contains a useful bibliography.

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