Technical Report 447-1995
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- Minkowski's second theorem on successive minima
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In this note we present Minkowski's proof of his second theorem on successive minima. It turns out that using the modern mathematical language his proof is extremely elegant and short, although it was sometimes criticized as lengthy and obscure.