László Fejes Tóth

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László Fejes Tóth (Szeged, 12 March 1915Budapest, 17 March 2005) was a Hungarian mathematician who specialised in geometry. He proved that a honeycomb pattern is the most efficient way to pack equal circles in two dimensions. He was also the first to show that the Kepler conjecture can be reduced to a finite case analysis.


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