Hales, Thomas C.
Introduction to the Flyspeck Project
Abstract
This article gives an introduction to a long-term project called Flyspeck, whose purpose is to give a formal verification of the Kepler Conjecture. The Kepler Conjecture asserts that the density of a
packing of equal radius balls in three dimensions cannot exceed $pi/sqrt{18}$.
The original proof of the Kepler Conjecture, from 1998, relies extensively on computer calculations. Because the proof relies on relatively few external results, it is a natural choice for a formalization effort.
BibTeX - Entry
@InProceedings{hales:DSP:2006:432,
author = {Thomas C. Hales},
title = {Introduction to the Flyspeck Project},
booktitle = {Mathematics, Algorithms, Proofs},
year = {2006},
editor = {Thierry Coquand and Henri Lombardi and Marie-Fran{\c{c}}oise Roy},
number = {05021},
series = {Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings},
ISSN = {1862-4405},
publisher = {Internationales Begegnungs- und Forschungszentrum f{\"u}r Informatik (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2006/432},
annote = {Keywords: Certified proofs, Kepler conjecture}
}
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Certified proofs, Kepler conjecture |
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