Geometry of Numbers in Vienna

• Published in: The Mathematical intelligencer Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 25 - 31
• Main Author: Zong, Chuanming
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer-Verlag 01.06.2009; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: 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

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...