From the reviews: "The book under review gives a detailed survey on the achievements of the last years on the problem of finding densest packings ... . The text is written in a very comprehensive and informative way, and all the numerical results on densities are impressively illustrated by many figures of 'optimal' packings. ... will serve as an excellent source for everybody, expert on non-expert, who is interested in circle packing or, who is just interested in the hardness of an appealing problem in discrete geometry." (Martin Henk, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1128 (6), 2008)

• and Problem History.- Problem Definitions and Formulations.- Bounds for the Optimum Values.- Approximate Circle Packings Using Optimization Methods.- Other Methods for Finding Approximate Circle Packings.- Interval Methods for Validating Optimal Solutions.- The First Fully Interval-based Optimization Method.- The Improved Version of the Interval Optimization Method.- Interval Methods for Verifying Structural Optimality.- Repeated Patterns in Circle Packings.- Minimal Polynomials of Point Arrangements.- About the Codes Used.

From the reviews: "The book under review gives a detailed survey on the achievements of the last years on the problem of finding densest packings ... . The text is written in a very comprehensive and informative way, and all the numerical results on densities are impressively illustrated by many figures of 'optimal' packings. ... will serve as an excellent source for everybody, expert on non-expert, who is interested in circle packing or, who is just interested in the hardness of an appealing problem in discrete geometry." (Martin Henk, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1128 (6), 2008)

• and Problem History.- Problem Definitions and Formulations.- Bounds for the Optimum Values.- Approximate Circle Packings Using Optimization Methods.- Other Methods for Finding Approximate Circle Packings.- Interval Methods for Validating Optimal Solutions.- The First Fully Interval-based Optimization Method.- The Improved Version of the Interval Optimization Method.- Interval Methods for Verifying Structural Optimality.- Repeated Patterns in Circle Packings.- Minimal Polynomials of Point Arrangements.- About the Codes Used.

From the reviews: "The book under review gives a detailed survey on the achievements of the last years on the problem of finding densest packings ... . The text is written in a very comprehensive and informative way, and all the numerical results on densities are impressively illustrated by many figures of 'optimal' packings. ... will serve as an excellent source for everybody, expert on non-expert, who is interested in circle packing or, who is just interested in the hardness of an appealing problem in discrete geometry." (Martin Henk, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1128 (6), 2008)

• and Problem History.- Problem Definitions and Formulations.- Bounds for the Optimum Values.- Approximate Circle Packings Using Optimization Methods.- Other Methods for Finding Approximate Circle Packings.- Interval Methods for Validating Optimal Solutions.- The First Fully Interval-based Optimization Method.- The Improved Version of the Interval Optimization Method.- Interval Methods for Verifying Structural Optimality.- Repeated Patterns in Circle Packings.- Minimal Polynomials of Point Arrangements.- About the Codes Used.