Symmetry and the Monster : One of the greatest quests of mathematics PDF
by Mark Ronan
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Imagine a giant snowflake in 196,884 dimensions... This is the story of a mathematical quest that began two hundred years ago in revolutionary France, led to the biggest collaboration ever between mathematicians across the world, and revealed the 'Monster' - not monstrous at all, but a structure of exquisite beauty and complexity.
Told here for the first time in accessible prose, it is a story that involves brilliant yet tragic characters, curious number 'coincidences' that led to breakthroughs in the mathematics of symmetry, and strangecrystals that reach into many dimensions. And it is a story that is not yet over, for we have yet to understand the deep significance of the Monster - and its tantalizing hints of connections with the physical structure of spacetime.
Once we understand the full nature of the Monster, we may well haverevealed a whole new and deeper understanding of the nature of our Universe.
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- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:18/05/2006
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- ISBN:9780191517662
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