This is the tale of a mathematical adventure. Last time our hardy band of explorers discovered that if you randomly choose two points on the unit sphere in 1-, 2- or 4-dimensional space and look at the probability distribution of their distances, then the even moments of this probability distribution are always integers. I gave a proof using some group representation theory.
On the other hand, with the help of Mathematica, Greg Egan showed that we can work out these moments for a sphere in an...
Published on July 12, 2018 05:00