Geometry of numbers in Vienna

DOI10.1007/S00283-009-9042-1MaRDI QIDQ842503zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Chuan Ming Zong

Publication date 25 September 2009

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-009-9042-1

zbMATH Keywords

history of geometry of numbersVienna school

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of mathematics at institutions and academies (non-university) (01A74) History of number theory (11-03) Geometry of numbers (11Hxx)

Review text

Starting with Minkowski's fundamental theorem the author surveys the development of the geometry of numbers highlighting the contributions by Philipp Furtwängler, Nikolaus Hofreiter, and Edmund Hlawka from Vienna. The final sections deal with the interactions between the geometry of numbers and Diophantine approximation and then convex and discrete geometry to which the Vienna school greatly contributed (Wolfgang M. Schmidt and Peter M. Gruber).

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