Symmetry and the Monster The Story of One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics

Name: Symmetry and the Monster The Story of One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics
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ISBN: 9780192807236

ISBN-10: 0192807234

ISBN-13: 9780192807236

Edition: 2006

Authors: 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 strange crystals 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…

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List price: $20.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/4/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Mark Ronanis Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Honorary Professor of Mathematics at University College, London. He is the author ofSymmetry and the Monster.



Prologue



Theaetetus's Icosahedron



Galois: Death of a Genius



Irrational Solutions



Groups



Sophus Lie



Lie Groups and Physics



Going Finite



After the War



The Man from Uccle



The Big Theorem



Pandora's Box



The Leech Lattice



Fischer's Monsters



The Atlas



A Monstrous Mystery



Construction



Moonshine


Notes



The Golden Section



The Witt Design



The Leech Lattice



The 26 Exceptions


Glossary


Index