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John McKay
Mathematician (1939-2022) · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Died at 82
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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About this person
Country
United Kingdom
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1939 to 2022 · aged 82
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