# Discriminant of the Icosahedral Group

This image, created by Greg Egan, shows the ‘discriminant’ of the symmetry group of the icosahedron. This group acts as linear transformations of $\mathbb{R}^3$ and thus also $\mathbb{C}^3$. By a theorem of Chevalley, the space of orbits of this group action is again isomorphic to $\mathbb{C}^3$. Each point in the surface shown here corresponds to a ‘nongeneric’ orbit: an orbit with fewer than the maximal number of points. More precisely, the space of nongeneric orbits forms a complex surface in $\mathbb{C}^3$, called the discriminant, whose intersection with $\mathbb{R}^3$ is shown here.

# Free Modular Lattice on 3 Generators

This is the free modular lattice on 3 generators, as drawn by Jesse McKeown. First discovered by Dedekind in 1900, this structure turns out to have an interesting connection to 8-dimensional Euclidean space.

# Golay Code

The extended binary Golay code, or Golay code for short, is a way to encode 12 bits of data in a 24-bit word in such a way that any 3-bit error can be corrected, and any 7-bit error can at least be detected. The easiest way to understand this code uses the geometry of the dodecahedron, as shown in this image by Gerard Westendorp.