Sphere packing

DOI10.1007/BF03026570MaRDI QIDQ791873zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors François Sigrist

Publication date 1983

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03026570

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice packing and covering (number-theoretic aspects) (11H31) Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17)

Review text

The article describes the problem of maximal density of packings of equal spheres in the Euclidean space, and its relation to number theory and coding theory as far as this could be presented to non-specialists. Neither definitions nor proofs.

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