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Symmetry and the monster : one of the greatest quests of mathematics

Mark Ronan
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

Print Book, English, 2007
Oxford University Press, New York, 2007