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J. H. Conway
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Mathematics Department, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
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N. J. A. Sloane
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Mathematical Sciences Research Center, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, USA
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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- J. H. Conway, N. J. A. Sloane
Pages 443-448
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- J. H. Conway, N. J. A. Sloane
Pages 449-475
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- J. H. Conway, R. A. Parker, N. J. A. Sloane
Pages 478-505
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- J. H. Conway, N. J. A. Sloane
Pages 506-512
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- R. E. Borcherds, J. H. Conway, L. Queen
Pages 513-521
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- J. H. Conway, N. J. A. Sloane
Pages 522-526
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- J. H. Conway, N. J. A. Sloane
Pages 532-553
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- R. E. Borcherds, J. H. Conway, L. Queen, N. J. A. Sloane
Pages 568-571
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Back Matter
Pages 572-682
About this book
The second edition of this timely, definitive, and popular book continues to pursue the question: what is the most efficient way to pack a large number of equal spheres in n-dimensional Euclidean space? The authors also continue to examine related problems such as the kissing number problem, the covering problem, the quantizing problem, and the classification of lattices and quadratic forms. Like the first edition, the second edition describes the applications of these questions to other areas of mathematics and science such as number theory, coding theory, group theory, analog-to-digital conversion and data compression, n-dimensional crystallography, and dual theory and superstring theory in physics. Results as of 1992 have been added to the text, and the extensive bibliography - itself a contribution to the field - is supplemented with approximately 450 new entries.
Authors and Affiliations
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Mathematics Department, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
J. H. Conway
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Mathematical Sciences Research Center, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, USA
N. J. A. Sloane