Comments on: Klein’s dessins d’enfant and the buckyball http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/kleins-dessins-denfant-and-the-buckyball.html lieven le bruyn's blog Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:42:15 +0200 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: John McKay http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/kleins-dessins-denfant-and-the-buckyball.html/comment-page-1#comment-6200 John McKay Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:22:51 +0000 http://www.neverendingbooks.org/?p=434#comment-6200 <p>"L_2(7) has elements of order 11 ??? Try 7.</p> “L_2(7) has elements of order 11 ??? Try 7.

]]> By: lieven http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/kleins-dessins-denfant-and-the-buckyball.html/comment-page-1#comment-5862 lieven Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:16:29 +0000 http://www.neverendingbooks.org/?p=434#comment-5862 <p>I've been told by David Singerman and Gareth Jones that the earliest use of a monodromy group associated to a dessin is due to Hamilton in his investigation of the Icosian game : </p> <p>\bibitem{Ham} W.~R.~Hamilton, Letter to John T.~Graves `On the Icosian' (17th October 1856), \textsl{Mathematical papers, Vol.~III, Algebra\/}, eds.~H.~Halberstam and R.~E.~Ingram, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1967, pp.~612--625.</p> <p>See also the paper <a href="http://www.emis.de/journals/SLC/wpapers/s35jones.pdf" rel="nofollow">Dessins d’enfants: bipartite maps and Galois groups</a>.</p> I’ve been told by David Singerman and Gareth Jones that the earliest use of a monodromy group associated to a dessin is due to Hamilton in his investigation of the Icosian game :

\bibitem{Ham} W.~R.~Hamilton, Letter to John T.~Graves `On the Icosian’ (17th October 1856), \textsl{Mathematical papers, Vol.~III, Algebra\/}, eds.~H.~Halberstam and R.~E.~Ingram, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1967, pp.~612–625.

See also the paper Dessins d’enfants: bipartite maps and Galois groups.

]]> By: D. Eppstein http://www.neverendingbooks.org/index.php/kleins-dessins-denfant-and-the-buckyball.html/comment-page-1#comment-5838 D. Eppstein Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:48:26 +0000 http://www.neverendingbooks.org/?p=434#comment-5838 <p>Very interesting -- I didn't know about Klein's earlier discovery of dessins, and have updated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dessin_d%27enfant" rel="nofollow">the Wikipedia article</a> (about which I'd appreciate feedback) to mention this.</p> Very interesting — I didn’t know about Klein’s earlier discovery of dessins, and have updated the Wikipedia article (about which I’d appreciate feedback) to mention this.

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