Thomas C. Hales

I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics,
and if you are, then God help you, for so am I,
only with this difference,
I stick fast in the mud at the bottom and there I shall remain.
-Charles Darwin

Office: East Hall 3846

Courses

Math 115
Past Semesters

Research

The Kepler Conjecture: (What is the densest arrangement of spheres in space?)
The Dodecahedral Conjecture: (Sean McLaughlin recently proved Fejes Tóth's dodecahedral conjecture.)
The honeycomb conjecture: (What is the most economical way to partition the plane into equal areas?)
Langlands theory and the Fundamental Lemma

Links

Math

Department of Math, University of Michigan
mailto:hales@math.lsa.umich.edu