120-Year-Old "Lie Group E8" Math Problem Solved

[Dynasty]

I alwasy like reading about this stuff.

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An international team of mathematicians has cracked a 120-year-old puzzle that researchers say is so complicated that its handwritten solution would cover the island of Manhattan...


The E8 group, which dates to 1887, is the most complicated Lie group, with 248 dimensions, and was long considered impossible to solve...



It involves about 60 times as much data as the Human Genome Project...

[bigpooch]

Thanks for the scoop!

Here's another link:

http://aimath.org/E8/