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[L]attice packing... has the properties that 0 is a center and... if there are spheres with centers <math>u</math> and <math>v</math> then there are … - John Horton Conway
" "[L]attice packing... has the properties that 0 is a center and... if there are spheres with centers <math>u</math> and <math>v</math> then there are spheres with centers <math>u + v</math> and <math>u - v</math>... [i.e.,] the sets of centers forms an . In crystallography these... are... called s... We can find... in general <math>n</math> centers <math>v_1,v_2, ...,v_n</math> for an n-dimensional lattice... such that the set of all centers consists of the sums <math>\sum k_i v_i</math> where <math>k_i</math> are s.
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About John Horton Conway
John Horton Conway (26 December 1937 – 11 April 2020) was an English mathematician, and Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University in New Jersey. He was active in the theory of s, , number theory, and . He also made contributions to many branches of , most notably the invention of the with . Born and raised in , Conway spent the first half of his career at the University of Cambridge before moving to the United States, where he held the John von Neumann Professorship at Princeton University for the rest of his career. He died of complications from COVID-19 at age 82.
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