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Book Information

Author(s): J. H. Conway and N. J. A. Sloane
Title: Sphere packings, lattices and groups, second ed.
Additional book information: Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften, bd. 290, Springer-Verlag, New York and Berlin, 1993, xliii+679 pp., US$69.00. ISBN 0-387-97912-3 and ISBN 3-540-97912-3


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Additional Information:

Reviewer(s):
C. A. Rogers

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1993), 306-314.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1993-00435-X
PII: S 0273-0979(1993)00435-X




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