Samuel P. Ferguson

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Samuel P. Ferguson is an American mathematician . He is known for his contribution to the proof of the Kepler Conjecture with Thomas C. Hales .

Ferguson in 1991 received his Bachelor Accounts in mathematics from Brigham Young University and in 1997 at the University of Michigan at Thomas C. Hales doctorate ( Sphere packings V ). He then worked for the National Security Agency .

Part of his dissertation was his contribution to solving the Kepler conjecture about packing of spheres. Hales had broken down the problem into around 5,000 individual cases of packing of spheres. He assigned the most difficult of these problems to Ferguson as a doctoral thesis ( pentahedral prism ). Ferguson also wrote much of the computer code that was essential to solving the problem and optimized the algorithms.

In 2009 he received the Fulkerson Prize with Hales .

Fonts

  • with Thomas Hales, Jeffrey Lagarias (editors): The Kepler conjecture. The Hales-Ferguson proof. Springer Verlag, 2011
  • Thomas Hales, Samuel Ferguson (editors Gábor Fejes Tóth, Jeffrey Lagarias): special issue of Discrete & Computational Geometry, Volume 36, 2006, No. 1 to prove the Kepler conjecture. In this:
    • with Hales: A Formulation of the Kepler Conjecture. Pp. 21-69; Ferguson Sphere Packings, V. Pentahedral Prisms , pp. 167-204
  • with Hales Part 5 of Hales A proof of the Kepler conjecture. In: Annals of Mathematics . Volume 162, 2005, pp. 1065-1185

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Samuel P. Ferguson in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ↑ Biographical information on the Robbins Prize 2007, Notices AMS 2007, No. 4, pdf
  3. ↑ Sally Pobojewski: Hales solves oldest trouble in discrete geometry. In: The University Record. University of Michigan, September 16, 1998
personal data
SURNAME Ferguson, Samuel P.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century