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In the two previous lectures we have obtained theorems about the minima of quadratic forms on the set of all non-zero integral points. These theorems can be formulated in terms of lattices. For example, the theorem about the minimum of positive-definite binary quadratic forms gives the following result:
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Siegel, C.L., Chandrasekharan, K. (1989). Lecture X. In: Lectures on the Geometry of Numbers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-08287-4_10
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