# From Symplectic Packing to Algebraic Geometry and Back

@inproceedings{Biran2001FromSP,
title={From Symplectic Packing to Algebraic Geometry and Back},
author={Paul Biran},
year={2001}
}
In this paper we survey various aspects of the symplectic packing problem and its relations to algebraic geometry, going through results of Gromov, McDuff, Polterovich and the author.
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