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monstrous moonshine

Noun

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monstrous moonshine (uncountable)

(mathematics) The unexpected connection between the Monster group and modular functions, now known to relate to a certain conformal field theory having the Monster group as symmetries.

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Moonshine The Monster group is one of two principal constituents in the Monstrous moonshine conjecture by Conway and Norton, which relates discrete and non-discrete mathematics and was finally proved by Richard Borcherds in 1992. Source: Internet

Strominger, Yau, and Zaslow 1996 Monstrous moonshine main An equilateral triangle can be rotated through 120°, 240°, or 360°, or reflected in any of the three lines pictured without changing its shape. Source: Internet

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