Two researchers have made a major advance in addressing a twist in the packing problem, jamming more tetrahedra -- solid figures with four triangular faces -- and other polyhedral solid objects than ...
Two Kent State University professors are part of a team of researchers who recently uncovered a way to pack tetrahedra, considered to be the simplest shaped regular solids with its four triangular ...
The problem of packing solid objects as closely together as possible has long fascinated mathematicians. In 1611, German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler proposed that the densest packing ...