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Thomas Callister Hales
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Thomas Callister Hales
Thomas Callister Hales
(born June 4, 1958) is an
American
mathematician
working on the
Langlands program
. He is known in the area for having worked on the
fundamental lemma
, and proving a special case of it over the group
Sp(4)
. Many of his ideas were incorporated into the final proof, due to
Ngô Bảo Châu
. He is also known for his 1998 computer-aided
proof
of the
Kepler conjecture
, a centuries-old problem in
discrete geometry
which states that the most space-efficient way to
pack spheres
is in a pyramid shape. Hales also proved the
honeycomb conjecture
.
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