A beauty and a beast

Hermann Nicolai
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Hermann Nicolai: Hermann Nicolai is at the Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut), Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany. nicolai@aei.mpg.de

Nature, 2007, vol. 447, issue 7140, 41-42

Abstract: The mapping of the largest exceptional Lie group, E8, is a milestone for enthusiasts for the aesthetics of mathematics. But this embodiment of complex symmetry could be of interest to fundamental physics, too.

Date: 2007
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