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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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History
Coined by John Conway and Simon P. Norton in 1979.
