The consistency of determinism doesn't mean that it's true. Mathematicians are accustomed to have consistency proofs. They say nothing about truth. T… - John Horton Conway

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The consistency of determinism doesn't mean that it's true. Mathematicians are accustomed to have consistency proofs. They say nothing about truth. They just say something about what might be true.

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About John Horton Conway

John Horton Conway (26 December 1937 – 11 April 2020) was an English mathematician, and Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University in New Jersey. He was active in the theory of s, , number theory, and . He also made contributions to many branches of , most notably the invention of the with . Born and raised in , Conway spent the first half of his career at the University of Cambridge before moving to the United States, where he held the John von Neumann Professorship at Princeton University for the rest of his career. He died of complications from COVID-19 at age 82.

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Alternative Names: John H. Conway JHC John Conway Conway

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[L]attice packing... has the properties that 0 is a center and... if there are spheres with centers <math>u</math> and <math>v</math> then there are spheres with centers <math>u + v</math> and <math>u - v</math>... [i.e.,] the sets of centers forms an . In crystallography these... are... called s... We can find... in general <math>n</math> centers <math>v_1,v_2, ...,v_n</math> for an n-dimensional lattice... such that the set of all centers consists of the sums <math>\sum k_i v_i</math> where <math>k_i</math> are s.

Why do we care about finding dense packing in n-dimensional space? ...This is an interesting problem in pure geometry. Hilbert mentioned it in 1900 in his list open problems... [T[he best packings... have connections... with other branches of mathematics. ...

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