In this note, the octonion multiplication table is recovered from a regular tesselation of the equilateral two timensional torus by seven hexagons, also known as Heawood’s map.
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Bruno Sévennec. Octonion multiplication and Heawood’s map. Confluentes Mathematici, Volume 5 (2013) no. 2, pp. 79-85. doi : 10.5802/cml.9. https://cml.centre-mersenne.org/articles/10.5802/cml.9/
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