Geometry of numbers
Geometría de números
- Date
- 1896 · confidence high
- Place
- Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Credited to
- Hermann Minkowski
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
Branch of number theory that studies algebraic numbers using lattices in Euclidean space, applying geometric arguments such as the convex body theorem; founded by Hermann Minkowski.
What it led to
- modern algebraic number theory
- lattice-based cryptography
- Diophantine geometry
- lattice reduction algorithms (LLL)