News from the world of maths: More mathematical music

Submitted by plusadmin on October 22, 2008

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

This is a maths music classic: The Klein 4 Group presents A finite simple group (of order two).

posted by Plus @ 12:37 PM

At 4:29 PM, Vyaas said...: Absolutely wonderful stuff!! I'm going to byheart this song!

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