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049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aRonan, Mark.
245 10 $aSymmetry and the monster :$bone of the greatest quests of mathematics /$cMark Ronan.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2006.
300 $avii, 255 pages :$billustrations ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 230-237) and index.
505 0 $aTheaetetus'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 Latice -- Fischer's monsters -- The atlas -- A monstrous mystery -- Construction -- Moonshine.
520 $a"Mathematics is driven forward by the quest to solve a small number of major problems--the four most famous challenges being Fermat's Last Theorem, the Riemann Hypothesis, Poincaré's Conjecture, and the quest for the 'Monster' of Symmetry. Now, in an exciting, fast-paced historical narrative ranging across two centuries, Mark Ronan takes us on an exhilarating tour of this final mathematical quest. Ronan describes how the quest to understand symmetry really began with the tragic young genius Evariste Galois, who died at the age of 20 in a duel. Galois, who spent the night before he died frantically scribbling his unpublished discoveries, used symmetry to understand algebraic equations, and he discovered that there were building blocks or 'atoms of symmetry.' Most of these building blocks fit into a table, rather like the periodic table of elements, but mathematicians have found 26 exceptions. The biggest of these was dubbed 'the Monster'--a giant snowflake in 196,884 dimensions. Ronan, who personally knows the individuals now working on this problem, reveals how the Monster was only dimly seen at first. As more and more mathematicians became involved, the Monster became clearer, and it was found to be not monstrous but a beautiful form that pointed out deep connections between symmetry, string theory, and the very fabric and form of the universe."--Pub. desc.
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650 0 $aGroup theory.
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648 7 $aGeschichte 1830-2000$2swd
648 4 $aGeschichte 1830-2000.
653 0 $aMoonshine
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