Une des choses qu’on réalise très vite en retournant au merveilleux monde des sciences pures, c’est que les scientifiques qui ont de l’imagination ne savent pas trop quoi en faire. À preuve: Together the work of Thompson and Tits has led to a better understanding of a strange class of symmetrical objects called sporadic groups, which don’t fit into the periodic table of symmetries. “They seem to come from nowhere,” says Niblo. The most bizarre of these, and the largest, is an object called the Monster, which can only be fully seen in 196,883 dimensions and.
Lire la suite