%0 Journal Article %T On Minkowksi's bound for lattice-packings %A Roland Bacher %J Mathematics %D 2004 %I arXiv %X We give a new proof of the Minkowski-Hlawka bound on the existence of dense lattices. The proof is based on an elementary method for constructing dense lattices which is almost effective. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0409008v1