Monster group
Grupo monstruo
- Date
- 1973-1982 · confidence medium
- Place
- Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
- Credited to
- Robert Griess
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
Robert Griess constructed the monster group, the largest sporadic simple group, conjectured in 1973 by Bernd Fischer and Griess himself and confirmed in 1982.
What it led to
- Classification of finite simple groups
- Monstrous moonshine and its link to string theory
- New algebraic constructions of sporadic groups
- Popular science coverage of the monster group