Events: detail
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: Symmetry and the Monster
- Hosted by:
- University College London
- Speaker:
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Professor Mark Ronan, UCL Mathematics
- Starts:
- October 30, 2007 at 01:15 pm
- Ends:
- October 30, 2007 at 02:00 pm
- Location:
- University College London, Darwin Lecture Theatre, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT United Kingdom
- Maps:
Description
On 30 May 1832 a young Frenchman named Évariste Galois lay dying in a field outside Paris, fatally wounded in a duel. The previous night, he had written a letter he knew would be his last, summarising his mathematical work. Galois was just 20, but his use of symmetry to study equations has made him immortal.
He started something that eventually led to the basic building blocks of symmetry. The quest to find them all produced a beautiful and mysterious object that lives in 196,884 dimensions, and may be connected with the very fabric of our universe.
It is called the Monster.
- Registration required:
- No
- Free:
- Yes
Additional information
Free without a ticket. No need to book. Open to staff, students and the general public.
For more information
- Contact person:
- Eda Pierce, Events Manager, UCL Events Team
- Phone:
- 020 7679 2647
- Email:
- events [ at ] ucl.ac.uk
- Website:
- UCL Lunch Hour Lecture: Symmetry and the Monster
