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MONSTROUS MOONSHINE: THE FIRST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2006

TERRY GANNON
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada T6G 2G1 [email protected]
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Abstract

Twenty-five years ago, Conway and Norton published in this journal their remarkable paper ‘Monstrous Moonshine’, proposing a completely unexpected relationship between finite simple groups and modular functions. We review the progress made in broadening and understanding that relationship.

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The London Mathematical Society 2006

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