Spreading out points on a sphere

1 · John Cook · Sept. 2, 2021, 8:06 p.m.
There is an apocryphal story that someone from the Manhattan Project asked a mathematician how to uniformly distribute 100 points on a sphere. The mathematician replied that it couldn’t be done, and the project leader thought the mathematician was being uncooperative. If this story is true, the mathematician’s response was correct but unhelpful. He took […] The post Spreading out points on a sphere first appeared on John D. Cook....