Brian Wecht
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852 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5 Sep
Brian Wecht’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Number three, the densest way to pack d-dimensional spheres is known only in dimensions 1, 2, 3, 8, and 24, and otherwise remains an open problem in mathematics.
If you think this is the fiction, clap now.
So it seems like an even split between two and three,
a distinct minority of people thinking number one.
the fiction.
Yeah.
All right.
We are going to take these in reverse
Starting with number three.
The densest way to pack d-dimensional spheres is known only in dimensions 1, 2, 3, 8, and 24, and otherwise remains an open problem in mathematics.
And this is science.
This
known result.
That's right.
Sphere packings in three dimensions.
You know, it's like stacking oranges is the classic thing.
But it's generally an open problem in math except in special dimensions.
Does anyone know why?
Can anyone guess why in special dimensions we might know something about this?
No.
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