From Error-Correcting Codes Through Sphere Packings to Simple

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From Error-Correcting Codes Through Sphere Packings to Simple Groups (Carus Mathematical Monographs)

This book traces a remarkable path of mathematical connections through seemingly disparate topics. Frustrations with a 1940's electro-mechanical computer at a premier research laboratory begin this story. Subsequent mathematical methods of encoding messages to ensure correctness when transmitted over noisy channels led to discoveries of extremely efficient lattice packings of equal-radius balls, especially in 24-dimensional space. In turn, this highly symmetric lattice, with each point neighbouring exactly 196,560 other points, suggested the possible presence of new simple groups as groups of symmetries. Indeed, new groups were found and are now part of the 'Enormous Theorem' - the classification of all simple groups whose entire proof runs to some 10,000+ pages. And these connections, along with the fascinating history and the proof of the simplicity of one of those 'sporadic' simple groups, are presented at an undergraduate mathematical level.
Country USA
Manufacturer Mathematical Assn of Amer
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780883850237
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Mathematical Assn of Amer
Binding	Hardcover
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780883850237
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

From Error-Correcting Codes Through Sphere Packings to Simple Groups (Carus Mathematical Monographs)

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