TY - BOOK AU - Zong,Chuanming AU - Talbot,J. TI - Sphere packings SN - 0387987940 U1 - 511.6 PY - 1999/// CY - New York PB - Springer KW - Sphere packings N1 - The Gregory-Newton Problem and Kepler's Conjecture.- Positive Definite Quadratic Forms and Lattice Sphere Packings.- Lower Bounds for the Packing Densities of Spheres.- Lower Bounds for the Blocking Numbers and the Kissing Numbers of Spheres.- Sphere Packings Constructed from Codes.- Upper Bounds for the Packing Densities and the Kissing Numbers of Spheres I.- Upper Bounds for the Packing Densities and the Kissing Numbers of Spheres II.- Upper Bounds for the Packing Densities and the Kissing Numbers of Spheres III.- The Kissing Numbers of Spheres in Eight and Twenty Four Dimensions.- Multiple Sphere Packings.- Holes in Sphere Packings.- Problems of Blocking Light Rays.- Finite Sphere Packings ER -