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The title is a pun actually, as the E8 group is technically both "exceptional" and "simple", in the mathematical sense of those terms, if i recall correctly. so the title is a joke…

i just want to point out that einstein wasn't 'arrogant' here. he said what he did because he 'knew' GR had to be right -- it was just the generalization of special relativity, whi…

Actually it took Whitehead and Russell a lot of work just to prove 1+1=2. not kidding. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Principia_Mathematica_the... It all depends on the axi…