Water Drop Perfection

Moebius Transformation

Thank You, Douglas N. Arnold and Jonathan Rogness of the University of Minnesota.

By August Ferdinand Moebius

Animating math formulae, is like taking sheet music and actually playing the music.

And Then There Is E8

Claudio Rocchini /e8 graph as 2-dimensional projection, by Peter McMullen


Have you heard of E8? It is quite beautiful and also an extraordinary accomplishment of the human mind. Listen to this announcement in Congress:





It may not be such a recent discovery, though.

On Ted.com (the Garrett Lisi video below takes 20 minutes but is a pretty good explanation of what E8 is all about) - a woman commented on this talk:

"So, I learned that a circle has one degree of symmetry; a sphere has three; a space whose symmetries are described by E8 has 248 symmetries.

Then I went back to the Kabbalah book I was reading, called The Tree of Life, and read: . . . each one of the five Partzufim, which are in every single world includes all 248 limbs. . . Another way of saying that is: each level of reality or each universe consists of 248 vessels . . . and these 248 vessels exist everywhere, eternally.

Vessels in Kabbalah are essentially a condensed form of Light or divine consciousness. It just struck me that Garrett Lisi is saying some things that are similar to what Rabbi Isaac Luria taught in 1570."





A picture's worth a thousand words - so watch these additional short videos to get more of a sense of E8.