Book:Mark Ronan/Symmetry and the Monster

Mark Ronan: Symmetry and the Monster: One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics

Published $\text {2006}$, Oxford University Press

ISBN 978-0-19-280723-6

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