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Symmetry and the Monster

Series exploring the quest to understand one of most famous mathematical problems

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Broadcast Thu, 1 May 2008, 23:00 on BBC Radio 3 but not available on BBC iPlayer.

4/4. Prof Mark Ronan explains how Bernd Fischer discovered a structure of 196,883 dimensions.

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