To Pack Spheres Tightly, Mathematicians Throw Them at Random

The article reads:

“Four mathematicians broke a 75-year-old record by finding a denser way to pack high-dimensional spheres.” 

“Last December, Sahasrabudhe, together with his Cambridge colleague Marcelo Campos, Matthew Jenssen of King’s College London and Marcus Michelen of the University of Illinois, Chicago, provided a new recipe for how to densely pack spheres in all arbitrarily high dimensions. It’s the first significant advance on the general sphere-packing problem in 75 years.”

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