Over two thousand years ago, the Greek mathematician Apollonius began the mathematical study of families of circles which are mutually tangent. Repeating his construction leads to the Apollonian circle packing, one of the first examples of a fractal set. More recently, they have been the subject of renewed interest by Nobel laureates and lesser mortals, but many intriguing questions remain.
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