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Welcome to my Blog :) I write about temporary interests, favorite open problems, neat arguments, random mathematical thoughts, things I want to remember, and stuff that is too little for a paper and too specific for Wikipedia. If somethings sparks your interest, feel free to contact me. Enjoy.

The Mahler conjecture for coordinate symmetric bodies

The Mahler conjecture asserts that among all centrally symmetric convex bodies \(B\) the cube minimizes the volume product \(\operatorname{vol}(B)\operatorname{vol}(B^\circ)\)…

The double kissing problem

Famously Isaac Newton and David Gregory disagreed over the maximal number of disjoint unit spheres that can simultaneously touch a central unit sphere. Newton claimed it to…