English Explanatory Dictionary

geometry of numbers

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The subbranch of number theory which applies techniques from geometry to the study of algebraic numbers.

Word forms

geometry of numbers

Etymology

The field was initiated by German mathematician Hermann Minkowski (1910, Geometrie der Zahlen).

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