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"Monstrous Moonshine is True": Profile of Richard Borcherds, by W. Wayt Gibbs. Scientific American, November 1998, pages 40-41.
This article presents a vivid and engaging portrait of mathematician Richard Borcherds. Borcherds, who proved what are known as the "moonshine conjectures" in the theory of finite simple groups, was awarded the highest honor in mathematics, the Fields Medal, in August 1998. "[L]ooking through his eyes, through his work," the article says, "you can get a glimpse of a whole alternative universe, full of wondrous objects that are real but not physical." The article succeeds in providing some glimpses of this universe and its fascinations.
--- Allyn Jackson
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