Skip Garibaldi: E_8, the most exceptional group of all

[Vavilov Nikolai]

 

Here, you can find another picture of E_8, Figure 2, more symmetric, but less

informative, at least for me. Black and white version is already in the book by

Coxeter on regular polytopes, I believe, but the coloured version might be due

to John Stembridge, an Australian guy, who writes cute papers and books on

the history of Mathematics, and high level mathematical entertainment (with

the stress being on MATHEMATICS).

That's a wonderful paper by a remarkable guy from California, Skip Garibaldi,

one of the best experts on invariants of exceptional groups. He IS of Italian

descent, but his Italian is not NEARLY as impressive as you would expect from

someone with that kind of the last name. But I'm more than impressed by his

mathematics, though.

 

Nikolai Vavilov