"geometry of numbers" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "The field was initiated by German mathematician Hermann Minkowski (1910, Geometrie der Zahlen).",
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          "text": "A typical approach in the geometry of numbers is to view a ring of algebraic integers as a lattice in #x5C;textstyle#x5C;mathbb#x7B;R#x7D;ⁿ; the study of these lattices provides fundamental information on algebraic numbers.",
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          "text": "1969, C. G. Lekkerkerker, Geometry of Numbers, Wolters-Noordoff, North-Holland, page 1,\nThe geometry of numbers to which this book is devoted deals with arbitrary bodies and arbitrary lattices in the n-dimensional euclidean space. Its aim is to study various quantities describing the behaviour of a body with respect to a lattice."
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          "text": "2000, C. D. Olds, Anneli Lax, Giuliana Davidoff, The Geometry of Numbers, Mathematical Association of America:",
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          "text": "2006, Enrico Bombieri, Walter Gubler, Heights in Diophantine Geometry, Cambridge University Press, page 181,\nThe easy proof is obtained applying the pigeon-hole principle to\nα₁x_1+…+αₙx_n(mod 1)|x_i=0,…N,\nor by geometry of numbers by applying Minkowski's first theorem in C.2.19 to the symmetric convex body of volume 2ⁿ⁺¹ given by\n|X_0+α₁X_1+…αₙX_n|<N⁻ⁿ,|X_i|<N,i=1,…N."
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        "The subbranch of number theory which applies techniques from geometry to the study of algebraic numbers."
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        "(number theory) The subbranch of number theory which applies techniques from geometry to the study of algebraic numbers."
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          "word": "Geometrie der Zahlen"
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          "text": "A typical approach in the geometry of numbers is to view a ring of algebraic integers as a lattice in #x5C;textstyle#x5C;mathbb#x7B;R#x7D;ⁿ; the study of these lattices provides fundamental information on algebraic numbers.",
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          "text": "1969, C. G. Lekkerkerker, Geometry of Numbers, Wolters-Noordoff, North-Holland, page 1,\nThe geometry of numbers to which this book is devoted deals with arbitrary bodies and arbitrary lattices in the n-dimensional euclidean space. Its aim is to study various quantities describing the behaviour of a body with respect to a lattice."
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          "text": "2006, Enrico Bombieri, Walter Gubler, Heights in Diophantine Geometry, Cambridge University Press, page 181,\nThe easy proof is obtained applying the pigeon-hole principle to\nα₁x_1+…+αₙx_n(mod 1)|x_i=0,…N,\nor by geometry of numbers by applying Minkowski's first theorem in C.2.19 to the symmetric convex body of volume 2ⁿ⁺¹ given by\n|X_0+α₁X_1+…αₙX_n|<N⁻ⁿ,|X_i|<N,i=1,…N."
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        "(number theory) The subbranch of number theory which applies techniques from geometry to the study of algebraic numbers."
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      "word": "Geometrie der Zahlen"
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      "word": "teoria dei numeri geometrica"
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