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Mathematician (1939-2022)

United KingdomAcademicsLived 1939 to 2022 · aged 82
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John K. S. McKay was a British-Canadian mathematician and academic who worked at Concordia University, known for his discovery of monstrous moonshine, his joint construction of some sporadic simple groups, for the McKay conjecture in representation theory, and for the McKay correspondence relating certain finite...

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John K. S. McKay was a British-Canadian mathematician and academic who worked at Concordia University, known for his discovery of monstrous moonshine, his joint construction of some sporadic simple groups, for the McKay conjecture in representation theory, and for the McKay correspondence relating certain finite groups to Lie groups.

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United Kingdom
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Academics
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Academic
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deceased
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Lived 1939 to 2022 · aged 82
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