Book:Mark Ronan/Symmetry and the Monster
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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