] A leading mathematics journal has finally accepted that one ] of the longest-standing problems in the field The Kepler conjecture about how efficiently you can pack oranges into a box has been solved with the help of computers, a la the 1976 proof of the four color theorem. There's a lot of hand-wringing here ... there is no ghost in the machine whether it be made of silicon or carbon. Deal with it, people. In Math, Computers Don't lie ... or do they? |