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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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780192807236
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-19-280723-6
- Verlag: OUP Oxford
- Erscheinungstermin: 26.07.2007
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2007
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 285 g
- Seiten: 264
- Format (B x H x T): 129 x 198 x 15 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt