Why You Should Know the Monster Group

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Why You Should Know the Monster Group

Post by Royal » Fri Mar 02, 2012 8:21 am

Royal: Do you know about the Monster Group Toastedbot?





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Royal: No. I'm talking about American Mathematician, Robert Geiss theory nicknamed the "Monster"- the largest and one of the MOST mysterious of the so-called sporadic groups, a particular set of groups in the field of Group Theory.

The quest to comprehend the monster has helped mathematicians understand some of the basic building blocks of symmetry and how such building blocks, along with some of the exceptional sub families, can be used to solve deep problems involving symmetry in mathematics and in mathematical physics. The monster group can be described as a mind-boggling snow flake with more than 10^53 symmetries that exist in a space of 196,884 dimensions.




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