Symmetry And The Monster

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0120080428Mark Ronan follows the discovery by Evariste Galois of the 'building blocks' of symmetry.
0220080429Mark Ronan charts the progress of the Norwegian Sophus Lie as he develops Galois's ideas.
0320080430Mark Ronan follows the work in the 1930s of Harvard mathematician Richard Brauer.
0420080501Prof Mark Ronan explains how Bernd Fischer discovered a structure of 196,883 dimensions.