Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups /
The second 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 cov...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York,
1993.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: | Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, A Series of Comprehensive Studies in Mathematics ;
290. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The second 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 first edition, the second 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, and dual theory and superstring theory in physics. Results as of 1992 have been added to the text, and the extensive bibliography - itself a contribution to the field - is supplemented with approximately 450 new entries. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xliii, 682 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781475722499 (electronic bk.) 1475722494 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 0072-7830 ; |