Mathematicians Discover New Way for Spheres to ‘Kiss’
In May of 1694, in a lecture hall at the University of Cambridge, Isaac Newton and the astronomer David Gregory started to contemplate the nature of the stars, only to end up with a math puzzle that would persist for centuries. The details of their conversation were poorly recorded and are possibly apocryphal — it had something to do with how stars of varying sizes would orbit a central sun.
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