The greatest mathematical paper of all time

DOI10.1007/BF03025189zbMath0683.01007OpenAlexW2133875637WikidataQ56211628 ScholiaQ56211628MaRDI QIDQ1824607

A. John Coleman

Publication date: 1989

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03025189

zbMATH Keywords

Weyl groupsLie algebrasCoxeter transformationWilhelm Killinglinear associative algebraElie CartanI. MacdonaldR. MoodySuper-String theoryV. Kac

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of topological groups (22-03)

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