Adeifeoba, Ademola2024-03-212024-03-212018-09-13https://doi.org/10.31730/osf.io/gub7dhttps://africarxiv.ubuntunet.net/handle/1/1233https://doi.org/10.60763/africarxiv/1185https://doi.org/10.60763/africarxiv/1185https://doi.org/10.60763/africarxiv/1185Supplemental Materials: https://osf.io/tn2bp/This note represents a summary of a talk given at the 2018 Summer Mathematical Physics seminar, with focus on the physical and the mathematical concepts of the holography principle and large-N dualities. Here, we present an elementary overview of the p-brane solutions in supergravity, setting up a stage for a fairly broad topics on the AdS/CFT correspondence.enD-braneMembrane model: p-braneSupergravity