Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Symmetry And The Monster One Of The Greatest Quests Of Mathematics
Author(s): Ronan Mark (Professor Of Mathematics At The University Of Illinois At Chicago And Visiting Professor Of Mathematics At University College London)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192807236
Pages: 264 Pages, Line Drawings & 12 Halftones
Publication Date: 9/4/2007
Category: Popular Science