Spatial intuition and minima of positive definite quadratic forms. Hermann Minkowski's habilitation in 1887 in Bonn

zbMath0725.01004MaRDI QIDQ2277241

Joachim Schwermer

Publication date: 1991

Published in: Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://dml.math.uni-bielefeld.de/JB_DMV/JB_DMV_093_2.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

quadratic forms; Dirichlet; Gauß; lattice point theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

01A70: Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies

11-03: History of number theory

01A75: Collected or selected works; reprintings or translations of classics

01A55: History of mathematics in the 19th century

11H55: Quadratic forms (reduction theory, extreme forms, etc.)

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