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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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Mathematical Perspectives
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 61 (2024), 173-185PDF
Published electronically: October 12, 2023

Sphere packings, lattices and groups by J. H. Conway and N. J. A. Sloane
no. 290, 1988, xxviii+663, ISBN 0-387-96617-X, $87.00
MR Number: 0920369 (89a:11067)
Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften [Fundamental Principles of Mathematical Sciences], Springer-Verlag, New York,
Reviewed by: J. M. Wills

A stability property of symplectic packing by Paul Biran
Inventiones Mathematicae 136, (1999), no. 1, 123–155
MR Number: 1681101 (2000b:57039)
Reviewed by: Matthias Schwarz

The honeycomb conjecture by T. C. Hales
Discrete & Computational Geometry. An International Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science 25, (2001), no. 1, 1–22
MR Number: 1797293 (2002a:52020)
Reviewed by: W. Kuperberg

New upper bounds on sphere packings. I by Henry Cohn and Noam Elkies
Annals of Mathematics. Second Series 157, (2003), no. 2, 689–714
MR Number: 1973059 (2004b:11096)
Reviewed by: Matthias Beck

Elliptic modular forms and their applications by Don Zagier
2008, 1–103 pp.
MR Number: 2409678 (2010b:11047)
Universitext,
Reviewed by: Rainer Schulze-Pillot

The dodecahedral conjecture by Thomas C. Hales and Sean McLaughlin
Journal of the American Mathematical Society 23, (2010), no. 2, 299–344
MR Number: 2601036 (2011d:52037)
Reviewed by: Peter M. Gruber

Dense sphere packings by Thomas C. Hales
2012, xiv+271 pp., ISBN 978-0-521-61770-3, $60.00
MR Number: 3012355
London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, 400, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
Reviewed by: J. C. Lagarias

A note on sphere packings in high dimension by Akshay Venkatesh
International Mathematics Research Notices. IMRN, (2013), no. 7, 1628–1642
MR Number: 3044452
Reviewed by: Ranjeet Kaur Sehmi

Sphere packing bounds via spherical codes by Henry Cohn and Yufei Zhao
Duke Mathematical Journal 163, (2014), no. 10, 1965–2002
MR Number: 3229046
Reviewed by: Anton Vladimirovich Shutov

A breakthrough in sphere packing: the search for magic functions by David de Laat and Frank Vallentin
Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde. Vijfde Serie 17, (2016), no. 3, 184–192
MR Number: 3643686
Reviewed by: Russell Jay Hendel

The sphere packing problem in dimension 8 by Maryna S. Viazovska
Annals of Mathematics. Second Series 185, (2017), no. 3, 991–1015
MR Number: 3664816
Reviewed by: Rainer Schulze-Pillot

The sphere packing problem in dimension 24 by Henry Cohn, Abhinav Kumar, Stephen D. Miller, Danylo Radchenko and Maryna Viazovska
Annals of Mathematics. Second Series 185, (2017), no. 3, 1017–1033
MR Number: 3664817
Reviewed by: Martin Henk

Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 61 (2024), 173-185
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