This Week’s Finds – Lecture 7

Today I’ll be talking about quaternions, octonions and E8. But a warning to everyone: today, November 10th, the seminar will be in a different building.

Today we’re in Lecture Theatre 1 of the Daniel Rutherford Building. This is a few minutes’ walk from the James Clerk Maxwell Building, just along from the Darwin Building.

Next week we will return to the usual place: Room 6206 of the James Clerk Maxwell Building, home of the Department of Mathematics of the University of Edinburgh.

As usual yo...