シンメトリーの地図帳
by マーカスデュ・ソートイ
19世紀のパリ、決闘の果てに夭折した天才ガロアは新しい数学の言語を生み出していた。古代ギリシャから続く対称性探求の旅に挑む数学界の探検家たちは、その言葉を駆使して“シンメトリーの素数”を網羅した「地図帳」を完成させる。最後に発見されたのは、19万6883次元の空間に潜む巨大結晶「モンスター」だった―。『素数の音楽』の著者と旅する、美しくも奇妙な数学の世界。
Literary CollectionsAsianJapanese
RELEASED2014
PUBLISHER新潮社
LENGTH655
LANGUAGEJA
Marcus du Sautoy is the Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the Oxford University, a chair he holds jointly at the Department of Continuing Education and the Mathematical Institute. He is also a Professor of Mathematics and a Fellow of New College. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2016. In 2001 he won the prestigious Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society awarded every two years to reward the best mathematical research made by a mathematician under 40. In 2004 Esquire Magazine chose him as one of the 100 most influential people under 40 in Britain and in 2008 he was included in the prestigious directory Who’s Who. In 2009 he was awarded the Royal Society’s Faraday Prize, the UK’s premier award for excellence in communicating science. He received an OBE for services to science in the 2010 New Year’s Honours List. He also received the Joint Policy for Mathematics Board Communications Award for 2010 and the London Mathematical Society Zeeman Medal for 2014 for promotion of mathematics to the public. -- [(Source)](https://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/about-marcus/)
シンメトリーの地図帳
by マーカスデュ・ソートイ
19世紀のパリ、決闘の果てに夭折した天才ガロアは新しい数学の言語を生み出していた。古代ギリシャから続く対称性探求の旅に挑む数学界の探検家たちは、その言葉を駆使して“シンメトリーの素数”を網羅した「地図帳」を完成させる。最後に発見されたのは、19万6883次元の空間に潜む巨大結晶「モンスター」だった―。『素数の音楽』の著者と旅する、美しくも奇妙な数学の世界。
Literary CollectionsAsianJapanese
RELEASED2014
PUBLISHER新潮社
LENGTH655
LANGUAGEJA
Marcus du Sautoy is the Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the Oxford University, a chair he holds jointly at the Department of Continuing Education and the Mathematical Institute. He is also a Professor of Mathematics and a Fellow of New College. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2016. In 2001 he won the prestigious Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society awarded every two years to reward the best mathematical research made by a mathematician under 40. In 2004 Esquire Magazine chose him as one of the 100 most influential people under 40 in Britain and in 2008 he was included in the prestigious directory Who’s Who. In 2009 he was awarded the Royal Society’s Faraday Prize, the UK’s premier award for excellence in communicating science. He received an OBE for services to science in the 2010 New Year’s Honours List. He also received the Joint Policy for Mathematics Board Communications Award for 2010 and the London Mathematical Society Zeeman Medal for 2014 for promotion of mathematics to the public. -- [(Source)](https://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/about-marcus/)
