Geometry of Numbers in Vienna

Zong discusses geometry of numbers, a topic and method arising from the work of Hermann Minkowski. Geometry of numbers, as a classic branch in mathematics, was formally born in 1891 when Minkowski gave a talk with this title in Halle, Germany. Roughly speaking, it is a subject dealing with relations...

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Published inThe Mathematical intelligencer Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 25 - 31
Main Author Zong, Chuanming
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer-Verlag 01.06.2009
Springer Nature B.V
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Mathematical and Computational Engineering
Mathematical and Computational Physics
Mathematical Communities
Mathematical Methods in Physics
Mathematical problems
Mathematicians
Mathematics
Mathematics and Statistics
Minkowski, Hermann
Number theory
Numerical and Computational Physics
Simulation
Theoretical
Convex Body
Diophantine Approximation
Convex Geometry
Lattice Packing
Mathematical Intelligencer
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Summary:Zong discusses geometry of numbers, a topic and method arising from the work of Hermann Minkowski. Geometry of numbers, as a classic branch in mathematics, was formally born in 1891 when Minkowski gave a talk with this title in Halle, Germany. Roughly speaking, it is a subject dealing with relations between lattices and convex bodies. It was Minkowski who first studied its key problems in full generality. His fundamental theorem published in 1891 can be regarded as the cornerstone of the subject. It also shows the clear characteristic of this field.
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ISSN:0343-6993
1866-7414
DOI:10.1007/s00283-009-9042-1