English Explanatory Dictionary

monstrous moonshine

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

monstrous moonshine

Etymology

Coined by John Conway and Simon P. Norton in 1979.

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