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A Survey of Recent Results in the Theory of Packing and Covering

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The theory of packing and covering, originated as an offspring of number theory and crystallography early in this century, has quickly gained interest of its own and is now an essential part of discrete geometry. The theory owes its early development to its aesthetic appeal and its classical flavor, but more recently, some of its topics have been found related to the rapidly developing areas of mathematics connected with computer science, and the theory of packing and covering has been boosted by a renewed interest.

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Tóth, G.F., Kuperberg, W. (1993). A Survey of Recent Results in the Theory of Packing and Covering. In: Pach, J. (eds) New Trends in Discrete and Computational Geometry. Algorithms and Combinatorics, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58043-7_11

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