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Maryna Viazovska

was born 40 years ago

2 November 1984

Maryna Viazovska is a Ukrainian mathematician who is professor at the Chair of Number Theory at the Institute of Mathematics of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. She won a Fields Medal for solving the sphere-packing problem in dimension 8. In collaboration with others she solved the sphere-packing problem in dimension 24.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Viazovska/