Abstract
All over the world during the last half of the 1970s experts in a branch of abstract algebra called group theory struggled to capture a group that John Horton Conway nicknamed “The Monster.” The name derives from its size. When it was finally constructed in 1980, the number of its elements proved to be 808,017, 424,794,512,875,886,459,904,961,710, 757,005,754,368,000,000,000, or 246 × 320 × 59 × 76 × 112 × 133 × 17 × 19 × 23 × 29 × 31 × 41 × 47 × 59 × 71
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Gardner, M. (1997). The Monster and Other Sporadic Groups. In: The Last Recreations. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30389-5_9
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