Mar 22

That's a Big Math Problem

‘Lie group E8’ math puzzle solved : Crazy.

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

[…] The problem’s proof, announced Monday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, took the researchers four years to find. It involves about 60 times as much data as the Human Genome Project.

[…] When stored in highly compressed form on a computer hard drive, the solution takes up as much space as 45 days of continuous music in MP3 format.

by Deane   March 22, 2007 11:07 AM   |

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