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Thomas Hales and Samuel Ferguson reduced Kepler's conjecture to 1,762 combinations.
Unresolved speaker · Mathematics Just Changed Forever — Kevin Hartnett · 26 Oct 2026
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“Now, two mathematicians, Thomas Hales and Samuel Ferguson, they reduced it to seventeen hundred and sixty-two combinations.”2:28Report a misattribution
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