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Symmetry and the monster : one of the greatest quests of mathematics /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.