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The Essay - Symmetry and the Monster

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Series exploring the quest to understand one of most famous mathematical problems

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The Essay - Symmetry and the Monster - Episode 1

Symmetry and the Monster: Series on symmetry in mathematics. 1/4. Professor Mark Ronan follows the discovery by the Frenchman Evariste Galois of the 'building blocks' of symmetry.

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The Essay - Symmetry and the Monster - Episode 2

Symmetry and the Monster: Series on the quest to understand symmetry. 2/4. Professor Mark Ronan charts the progress of Norwegian Sophus Lie's work as he developed Galois' ideas.

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The Essay - Symmetry and the Monster - Episode 3

Symmetry and the Monster: Series on the quest to understand symmetry. 3/4. Professor Mark Ronan follows the work of Richard Brauer in the 1930s.

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The Essay - Symmetry and the Monster - Episode 4

Symmetry and the Monster: Series on symmetry in mathematics. 4/4. Professor Mark Ronan explains how Bernd Fischer discovered a structure of 196,883 dimensions, known as the Monster.

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