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Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups (Grundlehren Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften)
Sphere Packings Lattices and Groups - Grundlehren Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften Author:John Horton Conway, Neil J. A. Sloane Discusses the questions pertaining to the most efficient way to pack a large number of equal spheres in n-dimensional Euclidean space & the related problems of the kissing number problem, the covering problem, the quantizing problem, & the classification of lattices & quadratic forms, connecting these questions to other mathematic areas. DLC: C... more »ombinatorial packing & covering.« less