Etymology

Keller's conjecture

Today it means: The conjecture that, in any tiling of n-dimensional Euclidean space by identical hypercubes, there are two hypercubes that share an entire (n − 1)-dimensional face with each other. Full definition →

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The story

The conjecture was introduced by Ott-Heinrich Keller (1930).

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