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Sphere Packings and Kissing Numbers

  • Conway J
  • Sloane N
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4757-6568-7_1
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Abstract

The first three chapters describe some of the questions that motivated this book. In this chapter we discuss the problems of packing spheres in Euclidean space and of packing points on the surface of a sphere. The kissing number problem is an important special case...

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Conway, J. H., & Sloane, N. J. A. (1999). Sphere Packings and Kissing Numbers (pp. 1–30). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6568-7_1

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