**The beautiful mathematics behind OpenAI's sphere packing result**

> Or, stacking oranges in 24 dimensions. OpenAI announced that they’ve solved ten open mathematical problems , including an improved Cohn-Elkies bound for sphere packing. I briefly worked with Henry Cohn on computational experiments for sphere packing as an undergraduate. Sphere packing is notorious for hard open questions—Maryna Viazovska earned a Fields Medal in 2022 for work in dimensions 8 and 24—but you may be sur...

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- **来源**：Hacker News：AI 热帖
- **分类**：论文
- **发布时间**：2026-08-17 22:02（北京时间）
- **原文**：[打开原文](https://www.empirical.health/blog/ai-math-sphere-packing)