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	'''120-year-old math puzzle solved'''
	Associated Press

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

	The 18-member group of mathematicians and computer scientists was convened by the American Institute of Mathematics in Palo Alto to map a theoretical object known as the “Lie group E8.”

	Lie (pronounced Lee) groups were invented by 19th-century Norwegian mathematician Sophus Lie in his study of symmetrical objects, especially spheres, and differential calculus.

	The E8 group, which dates to 1887, is the most complicated Lie group, with 248 dimensions, and was long considered impossible to solve.

	“To say what precisely it is is something even many mathematicians can't understand,” said Jeffrey Adams, the project's leader and a math professor at the University of Maryland.

	The problem's proof, announced 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.

	“It's like a Mount Everest of mathematical structures they've climbed now,” said Brian Conrey, director of the institute.

	The calculation does not have any obvious practical applications but could help advance theoretical physics and geometry, researchers said.

Sm at 15:23, 21 March 2007

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Thought it might interest some of you.

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'''120-year-old math puzzle solved'''
Associated Press

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

The 18-member group of mathematicians and computer scientists was convened by the American Institute of Mathematics in Palo Alto to map a theoretical object known as the “Lie group E8.”

Lie (pronounced Lee) groups were invented by 19th-century Norwegian mathematician Sophus Lie in his study of symmetrical objects, especially spheres, and differential calculus.

The E8 group, which dates to 1887, is the most complicated Lie group, with 248 dimensions, and was long considered impossible to solve.

“To say what precisely it is is something even many mathematicians can't understand,” said Jeffrey Adams, the project's leader and a math professor at the University of Maryland.

The problem's proof, announced 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.

“It's like a Mount Everest of mathematical structures they've climbed now,” said Brian Conrey, director of the institute.

The calculation does not have any obvious practical applications but could help advance theoretical physics and geometry, researchers said.