Symmetry and the Monster

Author: Mark Ronan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192807234
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
In an exciting, fast-paced historical narrative ranging across two centuries, Ronan takes readers on an exhilarating tour of this final mathematical quest to understand symmetry.

The Symmetries of Things

Author: John H. Conway
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439864896
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 442

Book Description
Start with a single shape. Repeat it in some way—translation, reflection over a line, rotation around a point—and you have created symmetry. Symmetry is a fundamental phenomenon in art, science, and nature that has been captured, described, and analyzed using mathematical concepts for a long time. Inspired by the geometric intuition of Bill Thurston and empowered by his own analytical skills, John Conway, with his coauthors, has developed a comprehensive mathematical theory of symmetry that allows the description and classification of symmetries in numerous geometric environments. This richly and compellingly illustrated book addresses the phenomenological, analytical, and mathematical aspects of symmetry on three levels that build on one another and will speak to interested lay people, artists, working mathematicians, and researchers.

Is It Symmetrical?

Author: Nancy Allen
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
ISBN: 1617411558
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24

Book Description
This Math Concept Book Engages Young Readers Through Simple Text And Photos As They Learn About Symmetry.

Vertex Operator Algebras and the Monster

Author: Igor Frenkel
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0080874541
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 563

Book Description
This work is motivated by and develops connections between several branches of mathematics and physics--the theories of Lie algebras, finite groups and modular functions in mathematics, and string theory in physics. The first part of the book presents a new mathematical theory of vertex operator algebras, the algebraic counterpart of two-dimensional holomorphic conformal quantum field theory. The remaining part constructs the Monster finite simple group as the automorphism group of a very special vertex operator algebra, called the "moonshine module" because of its relevance to "monstrous moonshine."

Why Beauty Is Truth

Author: Ian Stewart
Publisher:
ISBN: 0465082378
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
Physics.

Fearless Symmetry

Author: Avner Ash
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691138710
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Written in a friendly style for a general mathematically literate audience, 'Fearless Symmetry', starts with the basic properties of integers and permutations and reaches current research in number theory.

Have You Seen My Dragon?

Author: Steve Light
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763666483
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
Invite young readers to practice counting to twenty while helping a small boy search the city for his pet dragon.

Moonshine beyond the Monster

Author: Terry Gannon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009401580
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 493

Book Description

Finding Moonshine: A Mathematician's Journey Through Symmetry (Text Only)

Author: Marcus du Sautoy
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007380879
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Book Description
This new ebook from the author of 'The Music of the Primes' combines a personal insight into the mind of a working mathematician with the story of one of the biggest adventures in mathematics: the search for symmetry.

Monster Math

Author: Anne Miranda
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152165307
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
A counting book in which a little monster's birthday party gets out of control.