Book:Mark Ronan/Symmetry and the Monster

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