RE: March 19 / March 20, 2007

March 20, 2007 = 1st of Nisan, 5767

It seems March 19, 2007 is really a “milestone” date when you e.g. look at this report below

(Wow, even I do not understand much of this subject... it sounds “dramatic”...isn’t? ...

and I guess, dear John, surely you will “value highly this event”... J ...)

248-dimension maths puzzle solved

An international team of mathematicians has detailed a vast complex numerical "structure" which was invented more than a century ago.

Mapping the 248-dimensional structure, called E8, took four years of work and produced more data than the Human Genome Project, researchers said.

E8 is a "Lie group", a means of describing symmetrical objects.

The team said their findings may assist fields of physics which use more than four dimensions, such as string theory.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6466129.stm

Problem solved, 120 years later

It took 18 people four years to work out a math problem...

http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_5477595?source=rss

The magnitude of the E₈ calculation invites comparison with the Human Genome Project. The human genome, which contains all the genetic information of a cell, is less than a gigabyte in size. The result of the E₈ calculation, which contains all the information about E₈ and its representations, is 60 gigabytes in size...

http://www.aimath.org/ http://www.aimath.org/E8/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%E2%82%88_%28mathematics%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_group