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Symmetry and the Monster

Symmetry and the Monster One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 its tantalizing hints of connections with the physical structure of spacetime. Once we understand the full nature of the Monster, we may well have revealed a whole new and deeper understanding of the nature of our Universe.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780192807236
Publisher: OUP OXFORD
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 516.1
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 255
Weight: 294g
Height: 195mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 18mm