American Mathematical Society

Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

The Bulletin publishes expository articles on contemporary mathematical research, written in a way that gives insight to mathematicians who may not be experts in the particular topic. The Bulletin also publishes reviews of selected books in mathematics and short articles in the Mathematical Perspectives section, both by invitation only.

ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Review information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (2013), 331-335
Published electronically: January 15, 2013
Full text: PDF

MR: 0230204 (37 #5767)
H. S. M. Coxeter
The problem of Apollonius.
The American Mathematical Monthly 75, (1968), 5–15
Reviewed by: P. Du Val

MR: 1913879 (2003f:00005)
David Mumford, Caroline Series and David Wright
Indra’s pearls.
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2002, xx+396 pp., ISBN 0-521-35253-3, $50.00
Reviewed by: Vasily A. Chernecky

MR: 1971245 (2004d:11055)
Ronald L. Graham, Jeffrey C. Lagarias, Colin L. Mallows, Allan R. Wilks and Catherine H. Yan
Apollonian circle packings: number theory.
Journal of Number Theory 100, (2003), no. 1, 1–45
Reviewed by: D. Boyd

MR: 2173929 (2009a:11090a)
Ronald L. Graham, Jeffrey C. Lagarias, Colin L. Mallows, Allan R. Wilks and Catherine H. Yan
Apollonian circle packings: geometry and group theory. I. The Apollonian group.
Discrete & Computational Geometry. An International Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science 34, (2005), no. 4, 547–585

MR: 2183489 (2009a:11090b)
Ronald L. Graham, Jeffrey C. Lagarias, Colin L. Mallows, Allan R. Wilks and Catherine H. Yan
Apollonian circle packings: geometry and group theory. II. Super-Apollonian group and integral packings.
Discrete & Computational Geometry. An International Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science 35, (2006), no. 1, 1–36

MR: 2183490 (2009a:11090c)
Ronald L. Graham, Jeffrey C. Lagarias, Colin L. Mallows, Allan R. Wilks and Catherine H. Yan
Apollonian circle packings: geometry and group theory. III. Higher dimensions.
Discrete & Computational Geometry. An International Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science 35, (2006), no. 1, 37–72
Reviewed by: Igor Rivin

MR: 2813334 (2012d:11072)
Jean Bourgain and Elena Fuchs
A proof of the positive density conjecture for integer Apollonian circle packings.
Journal of the American Mathematical Society 24, (2011), no. 4, 945–967
Reviewed by: Matthias Beck