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Dear Mathematicians,

Today, I learned that you finally cracked a 120 year old puzzle.

I'm so happy that all the time you put into this effort finally paid off. When I saw the computer generated map of the Lie group E8, it occurred to me that I already solved this little puzzler.

The E8 group, which dates to 1887, is the most complicated Lie group, with 248 dimensions, and was long considered impossible to solve.

"To say what precisely it is is something even many mathematicians can't understand," said Jeffrey Adams, the project's leader and a math professor at the University of Maryland.

You guys should have dropped me a line. I know you made it sound complicated, but I made a graphical representation of the answer so you could understand it. I know it doesn't appear to contain 60 times as much information at the Human Genome Project, but I'm sure it is more useful than what you came up with, considering it is correct. Oddly enough, the answer may be hundreds, if not thousands of years older that the question.



Unlike your answer, mine does have a practical application. It is telling you a very important message.

Stop. Wasting. Your. Time. It's there in at least 2 dimensions, for easy comprehension, but if it is confusing, I carry around a 3 dimensional model as well. Just ask me to show it to you.

In the mean time, work on something with a practical application. Like, balancing my check book. I HATE doing that.