Hans-Volker Niemeier

Hans-Volker Niemeier is a German mathematician who in 1973 classified the Niemeier lattices, the even positive definite unimodular lattices in 24 dimensions.

References

• Hans-Volker Niemeier at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Niemeier, Hans-Volker (1973). "Definite quadratische Formen der Dimension 24 und Diskriminate 1" (In German). Journal of Number Theory. 5 (2): 142–178. Bibcode:1973JNT.....5..142N. doi:10.1016/0022-314X(73)90068-1. MR 0316384.