Icosian Calculus - Legacy

Legacy

The Icosian Calculus is one of the earliest examples of many mathematical ideas, including:

  • presenting and studying a group by generators and relations;
  • a triangle group, later generalized to Coxeter groups;
  • visualization of a group by a graph, which led to combinatorial group theory and later geometric group theory;
  • Hamiltonian circuits and Hamiltonian paths in graph theory;
  • dessin d'enfant – see dessin d'enfant: history for details.

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