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Symmetry and the Monster: the Story of One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics
by Ronan, Mark
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- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0192807234
- ISBN 13
- 9780192807236
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About This Item
Oxford University Press (United Kingdom), 2007.. Very Good/Unknown. 12 mo., softcover, near fine in blue wraps. Giftable. (272 pp) 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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-237) and index.
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46955
- Title
- Symmetry and the Monster: the Story of One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics
- Author
- Ronan, Mark
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Unknown
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0192807234
- ISBN 13
- 9780192807236
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (United Kingdom), 2007.
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- This edition first published
- August 10, 2007
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