Symmetry and the Monster
Ongoing 8 essays
From the five regular solids, through the night before Galois's duel and the thirty-year classification of finite simple groups, to the Monster itself: a history of symmetry.
- 01 Symmetry and the Monster (1): The language of symmetry, starting from five solids
- 02 Symmetry and the Monster (2): The Eve of the Duel — Galois and the Equations That Cannot Be Solved
- 03 Symmetry and the Monster (3): The Indecomposable Atom · A₅
- 04 Symmetry and the Monster (4): The Mathematician Taken for a Spy, and the Dream He Dreamed After Galois
- 05 Symmetry and the Monster (5): Thirty years, ten thousand pages, and a proof no one can read to the end
- 06 Symmetry and the Monster (6): Pandora's box
- 07 Symmetry and the Monster (7): First the Medical Report, Then the Monster
- 08 Symmetry and the Monster (8, finale): Moonshine