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Author / Creator:Zong, Chuanming.
Imprint:New York : Springer, c1999.
Description:xiii, 241 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Universitext
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4480308
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Other authors / contributors:Talbot, J. (John), 1974-
ISBN:0387987940 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-236) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • The Gregory-Newton Problem and Kepler's Conjecture
  • Positive Definite Quadratic Forms and Lattice Sphere Packings
  • Lower Bounds for the Packing Densities of Spheres
  • Lower Bounds for the Blocking Numbers and the Kissing Numbers of Spheres
  • Sphere Packings Constructed from Codes
  • Upper Bounds for the Packing Densities and the Kissing Numbers of Spheres I
  • Upper Bounds for the Packing Densities and the Kissing Numbers of Spheres II
  • Upper Bounds for the Packing Densities and the Kissing Numbers of Spheres III
  • The Kissing Numbers of Spheres in Eight and Twenty Four Dimensions
  • Multiple Sphere Packings
  • Holes in Sphere Packings
  • Problems of Blocking Light Rays
  • Finite Sphere Packings