The work of Maryna Viazovska (Q6119204)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7822669
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7822669 |
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The work of Maryna Viazovska (English)
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22 March 2024
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Summary: On July 5th, 2022, Maryna Viazovska was awarded a Fields Medal for her solution of the sphere packing problem in eight dimensions, as well as further contributions to related extremal problems and interpolation problems in Fourier analysis. This article explains some of the ideas behind her work to a broad mathematical audience. For the entire collection see [Zbl 07816355].
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sphere packing
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modular forms
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