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Title: Exotic Symmetry
Speaker: Professor John Stillwell
Speaker Info: MIT, and Monash University (Australia)
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This talk is about mathematical objects that are both rare and important. I shall survey the history of some exceptional objects, from the regular polyhedra to quaternions to sporadic simple groups, and discuss how they have influenced the general development of mathemtics.