Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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This lecture describes an astonishingly simple construction of the Leech lattice in 24 dimensions, found by John Conway and Neal Sloane.
This is an experimental joint video with @yamshakta (tiktok.com/@yamsox/video/7057530890381053189) who added the animation, the thumbnail, and improved the audio. He has a companion video on the E8 lattice: youtube.com/watch?v=9B14in_wbQw