monstrous moonshine

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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.

Coordinate terms

Mathieu moonshine
umbral moonshine

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