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Who proved the Kepler conjecture about the densest sphere packing?
AIsaac Newton
BThomas Hales
CLeonhard Euler
DPierre Fermat
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Thomas Hales
Thomas Hales proved that no arrangement of equal spheres, regular or not, beats the close-packed density.
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