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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.
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3 stars 2 stars 1 star - Paperback 272 Pages
- Edition: New Ed
- ISBN-10: 0192807234
- ISBN-13: 9780192807236
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Pub date: Aug 10, 2007
- Dimensions: 19 cm x 13 cm x 2 cm Just how big is that?
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