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Symmetry and the Monster: the Story of One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics
por Ronan, Mark
- Usado
- Muito Bom
- Brochura
- Condição
- Muito Bom/Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0192807234
- ISBN 13
- 9780192807236
- Livreiro
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Concord, California, United States
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Oxford University Press (United Kingdom), 2007.. Very Good/Unknown. 12 mo., softcover, near fine in blue wraps. Giftable. (272 pp) 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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-237) and index.
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- Livreiro
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- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 46955
- Título
- Symmetry and the Monster: the Story of One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics
- Autor
- Ronan, Mark
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Muito Bom
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Unknown
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Encadernação
- Brochura
- ISBN 10
- 0192807234
- ISBN 13
- 9780192807236
- Editorial
- Oxford University Press (United Kingdom), 2007.
- Local de publicação
- Oxford
- Esta edição foi publicada pela primeira vez
- August 10, 2007
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