Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups

John Conway,Neil J. A. Sloane

Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Country
United States
Published
7 December 1998
Pages
706
ISBN
9780387985855

Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups

John Conway,Neil J. A. Sloane

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The third edition of this timely, definitive, and popular book continues to pursue the question: what is the most efficient way to pack a large number of equal spheres in n-dimensional Euclidean space? The authors also continue to examine related problems such as the kissing number problem, the covering problem, the quantizing problem, and the classification of lattices and quadratic forms. Like the previous edition, the third edition describes the applications of these questions to other areas of mathematics and science such as number theory, coding theory, group theory, analog-to-digital conversion and data compression, n-dimensional crystallography, dual theory and superstring theory in physics. Of special interest to the third edtion is a brief report on some recent developments in the field and an updated and enlarged Supplementary Bibliography with over 800 items.

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