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Symmetry and the Monster

Professor Mark Ronan · Gresham College

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About

On 30 May 1832 a young Frenchman named Évariste Galois lay dying in a field outside Paris, fatally wounded in a duel. The previous night, he wrote a letter he knew would be his last, summarizing his mathematical work. Galois was just twenty, but his use of symmetry to study equations has made him immortal. He started something that led eventually to the basic building blocks of symmetry. The quest to find them all produced a beautiful and mysterious object that lives in 196,884 dimensions, and may be connected with the very fabric of our universe. It is called the Monster.

The talk

  1. Symmetry and the Monster 2008-02-20 · YouTube

Credits and licence

Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor Mark Ronan
Year
2008
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Mathematics, History
Source
Gresham College
Licence
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