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Symmetry and the Monster: One of the greatest quests of mathematics.
・ISBN 978-0-19-280723-6 paper GB£ 14.99
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| 著者・編者 | Ronan, Mark, |
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| 出版社 | (Oxford University Press, UK) |
| 出版年月 | 2007 |
| ページ数 | 264 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜A01-56615＞ |
解説
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.