Project 1.8

Read the article, "Mathematics at the Turn of the Millennium," by Phillip A. Griffiths, The American Mathematical Monthly, January, 2000, pp. 1-14. Briefly describe each of these famous problems:

a. Fermat's last theorem
b. Kepler's sphere packing conjecture
c. The four-color problem

Which of these problems are discussed later in this text, and where?
The objective of this article was to communicate something about mathematics to a general audience. Discuss how well did it succeed with you?

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