Joris van Hoboken's thesis on Platonic solids,Kleinian singularities and ADE

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John Baez
In "week182", back in 2002, I referred to this very nice thesis:

Joris van Hoboken, Platonic solids, binary polyhedral groups, Kleinian
singularities and Lie algebras of type A,D,E, Master's Thesis, University of
Amsterdam, 2002, available at
http://www.science.uva.nl/research/math/Onderwijs/examen/2002/scriptiejoris.ps

Now I'm studying this stuff again. There are cool relations to ALE
spaces and string theory, and lots more.

Alas, I didn't keep a copy! It seems to be gone. James Dolan and
I can't find it using Google or the "wayback" web archive. I can't
locate van Hoboken, either.

Does anyone have a copy, please?

This is another reason people should put their theses on the arXiv!
Universities should also keep electronic copies of theses in some
publicly available electronic form.
 
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Hello John Baez
Is this the paper you're looking for?
http://home.student.uva.nl/joris.vanhoboken/scriptiejoris.ps

If you cannot download it, I've got a copy!
 
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John Baez wrote:
> In "week182", back in 2002, I referred to this very nice thesis:
>
> Joris van Hoboken, Platonic solids, binary polyhedral groups, Kleinian
> singularities and Lie algebras of type A,D,E, Master's Thesis, University of
> Does anyone have a copy, please?[/color]

Try this link
http://home.student.uva.nl/joris.vanhoboken/scriptiejoris.ps
 
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In article <e1jcu4$6cu$1@glue.ucr.edu>,
John Baez <baez@math-cl-n03.math.ucr.edu> wrote:

> Joris van Hoboken, Platonic solids, binary polyhedral groups, Kleinian
> singularities and Lie algebras of type A,D,E, Master's Thesis, University of
> Amsterdam, 2002.[/color]

>Does anyone have a copy, please?[/color]

Got it! Excellent! Sam Wormley gave me a copy, and I'll make it
available here:

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/joris_van_hoboken_platonic.pdf

It's a nice description of some incredibly cool stuff. Check it out!
 


Its on the same set of servers, just moved around a bit.

Google scholar lists 4 different versions. The second gets you there.

http://scholar.google.com/url?sa=U&q=http://home.student.uva.nl/joris.vanhoboken/scriptiejoris.ps

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Joris van Hoboken's thesis in mathematics

I got hinted by my former professor Koornwinder of the University of Amsterdam that my thesis (Platonic Solids, Binary Polyhedral Groups, Kleinian Sigularities and Lie Algebras of Type A,D,E) is a little hard to find. I started a blog several moths ago and made a post there, so it will be easy to find:

http://www.jorisvanhoboken.nl/?p=10

The file is here:
http://www.jorisvanhoboken.nl/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/platonic-solids-binary-polyhedral-groups-kleinian-singularities-and-lie-algebras-of-type-ade.pdf

By the way, I became a legal researcher, in the field of Internet Law and Freedom of Expression, so I'm not working on this wonderful stuff anymore.
 
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