Tag Archives: ADE

Discovered or invented?

Posted on 13/02/2026 by Peter Cameron

Last night, I took part in a debate organised by the students’ Debating Society and Mathematics Society jointly. The proposition before the house was This House Believes That Mathematics Is a Human Invention Rather Than a Discovery. When I was … Continue reading →

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An ADElphabet

Posted on 25/04/2025 by Peter Cameron

Some things involved in the ADE affair. A is for asymptotically locally Euclidean spaceB is for binary polyhedral groupC is for Clifford algebra, or cluster algebraD is for Du Val singularityE is for eigenvalue, or exceptional Lie algebraF is for … Continue reading →

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ADE: the book of the series

Posted on 10/02/2025 by Peter Cameron

The ADE book now has a webpage where you can pre-order it, though it won’t actually be published until August. The ISBN for the paperback version is 9781009335980 and the link is https://www.cambridge.org/9781009335980. You will see that it contains much … Continue reading →

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