László Fejes Tóth
Hungarian mathematician
Died when: 90 years 5 days (1080 months)Star Sign: Pisces
László Fejes Tóth (Hungarian: Fejes Tóth László, pronounced ['f?j?? 'to?t 'la?slo?] 12 March 1915 – 17 March 2005) was a Hungarian mathematician who specialized in geometry.
He proved that a lattice pattern is the most efficient way to pack centrally symmetric convex sets on the Euclidean plane (a generalization of Thue's theorem, a 2-dimensional analog of the Kepler conjecture).
He also investigated the sphere packing problem.He was the first to show, in 1953, that proof of the Kepler conjecture can be reduced to a finite case analysis and, later, that the problem might be solved using a computer.
He was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (from 1962) and a director of the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics (1970-1983).
He received both the Kossuth Prize (1957) and State Award (1973).Together with H.S.M.Coxeter and Paul Erdos, he laid the foundations of discrete geometry.
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