| #6801490 in Books | 2013-04-08 | 2013-04-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x.59 x6.10l,.81 | File type: PDF | 242 pages||5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| A pleasant introduction to sphere packings|By Mathieu Dutour|This book consider both lattice and non-lattice sphere packings and consider the following special problems --a proof that kissing number in dimension 3 is 12 --geometry of numbers: lattice sphere packings and spheres --kissing number in dimension 8 and 24 --finite sphere packings --multiple s|||From the reviews: |"Problems dealing with sphere packings have attracted the interest of mathematicians for more than three centuries. Important contributions are due to Kepler, Newton and Gregory, Lagrange, Seeber and Gauss, Dirichlet, Hermite, Korkine and Z
Sphere packings is one of the most fascinating and challenging subjects in mathematics. In the course of centuries, many exciting results have been obtained, ingenious methods created, related challenging problems proposed, and many surprising connections with other subjects found. This book gives a full account of this fascinating subject, especially its local aspects, discrete aspects, and its proof methods. The book includes both classical and contemporary results and...
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