Maryna Viazovska is a mathematician known for her work in sphere packing and only the second woman to win the Fields Medal.
Other than stacking cannonballs, I'm really curious about other ways sphere packing can be useful.
Apparently, it's used in communications technology to ensure that the signal can be efficiently and effectively transmitted, despite noise:
https://plus.maths.org/content/communication-and-ball-packing
Other than stacking cannonballs, I'm really curious about other ways sphere packing can be useful.
Apparently, it's used in communications technology to ensure that the signal can be efficiently and effectively transmitted, despite noise:
https://plus.maths.org/content/communication-and-ball-packing