Timeline for Why does the monster group exist?
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| Oct 4, 2023 at 13:49 | vote | accept | Leibniz's Alien | ||
| Oct 3, 2023 at 4:58 | comment | added | Jesse Elliott | I fully support the idea that not all proofs that something is true are explanations as to why it is true (e.g., the proof of the four color theorem), and also that some theorems are "accidents" (which is how I think of some Godel statements). Great post! | |
| Oct 3, 2023 at 2:06 | history | edited | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added a quote from Richard Borcherds
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| Sep 16, 2023 at 4:29 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | Watching the Numberphile video again, I see that Conway does explicitly say, at the eight-minute mark, that the Monster group is "obviously not there just by coincidence; it's got too many intriguing properties for it to all be just an accident." Then when Brady complains that 196,883 seems so "arbitrary," Conway objects that it is definitely not arbitrary. | |
| Aug 27, 2023 at 18:36 | history | answered | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 4.0 |