Symmetry and the monster : one of the greatest quests of mathematics

Symmetry and the monster : one of the greatest quests of mathematics / Mark Ronan.

The hunt for the 'Monster' of symmetry is one of the great mathematical quests, alongside Fermat's Last Theorem, the Riemann Hypothesis, and Poincar--eacute--; Conjecture. The Monster is a giant snowflake in 196,884 dimensions - the largest exception to our neat classifications of sym...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ronan, Mark
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Series:OUP E-Books.
Subjects:
Geschichte 1830-2000.
Symmetry (Mathematics)
Group theory.
MATHEMATICS > Geometry > General.
Group theory
Monster-Gruppe
Symmetrie
Groepentheorie.
Symmetrie.
Groupes, Théorie des.
Symétrie > Histoire.
Mathématiques > Histoire.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Prologue; 1 Theaetetus's Icosahedron; 2 Galois: Death of a Genius; 3 Irrational Solutions; 4 Groups; 5 Sophus Lie; 6 Lie Groups and Physics; 7 Going Finite; 8 After the War; 9 The Man from Uccle; 10 The Big Theorem; 11 Pandora's Box; 12 The Leech Lattice; 13 Fischer's Monsters; 14 The Atlas; 15 A Monstrous Mystery; 16 Construction; 17 Moonshine; Notes; Appendix 1: The Golden Section; Appendix 2: The Witt Design; Appendix 3: The Leech Lattice; Appendix 4: The 26 Exceptions; Glossary; Index.

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