A complex symmetric structure known as theexceptional Lie group E8, which has so far only existed in the minds of mathematicians, seems to have turned up in real life for the first time.
From WIRED:
Most of us can’t tell our secant from our cotangent. But the forms are everywhere, and Nikki Graziano wants to help us see them. Graziano, a math and photography student at Rochester Institute of Technology, overlays graphs and their corresponding equations onto her carefully composed photos…
Posted February 5, 2010 at 5:08pm in math
A Fibonacci spiral window at The Women’s College of the University of Denver. Photo by Photo by Japheth Wood (Bard College)
