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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 58 (2021), 443-456
Published electronically: May 27, 2021
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MR: 0827219 (88g:20025)
J. H. Conway, R. T. Curtis, S. P. Norton, R. A. Parker and R. A. Wilson
$\Bbb {ATLAS}$ of finite groups.
Oxford University Press, Eynsham, 1985, xxxiv+252, $45.00
Reviewed by: R. L. Griess

MR: 0245518 (39 #6824)
J. H. Conway
A characterisation of Leech’s lattice.
Inventiones Mathematicae 7, (1969), 137–142
Reviewed by: G. K. White

MR: 4080553
J. H. Conway, M. S. Paterson and U. S. S. R. Moscow
A headache-causing problem.
American Mathematical Monthly 127, (2020), no. 4, 291–296
Reviewed by: Andrew James Simoson

MR: 782233 (86h:20019)
J. H. Conway
A simple construction for the Fischer–Griess monster group.
Inventiones Mathematicae 79, (1985), no. 3, 513–540
Reviewed by: Geoffrey Mason

MR: 2253008 (2007k:20005)
John H. Conway, Noam D. Elkies and Jeremy L. Martin
The Mathieu group $M_{12}$ and its pseudogroup extension $M_{13}$.
Experimental Mathematics 15, (2006), no. 2, 223–236
Reviewed by: Peter M. Neumann

MR: 1172696 (94f:11030)
Richard E. Borcherds
Monstrous moonshine and monstrous Lie superalgebras.
Inventiones Mathematicae 109, (1992), no. 2, 405–444
Reviewed by: Steven N. Kass

MR: 1198809 (94d:57010)
Joan S Birman and Xiao-Song Lin
Knot polynomials and Vassiliev’s invariants.
Inventiones Mathematicae 111, (1993), no. 2, 225–270
Reviewed by: Józef H. Przytycki

MR: 0880512 (88b:57012)
W. B. R. Lickorish and Kenneth C Millett
A polynomial invariant of oriented links.
Topology. An International Journal of Mathematics 26, (1987), no. 1, 107–141
Reviewed by: Józef H. Przytycki

MR: 4076631
Lisa Piccirillo
The Conway knot is not slice.
Annals of Mathematics. Second Series 191, (2020), no. 2, 581–591
Reviewed by: Laurence R. Taylor

MR: 1707296 (2001c:20028)
Jr. Griess, Robert L.
Twelve sporadic groups.
Springer Monographs in Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1998, iv+169 pp., ISBN 3-540-62778-2, $79.95
Reviewed by: Robert A. Wilson

MR: 1478672 (98k:11035)
John H. Conway
The sensual (quadratic) form.
Mathematical Association of America, Washington, DC, 1997, xiv+152, ISBN 0-88385-030-3, $32.95
Reviewed by: Carl Riehm

Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 58 (2021), 443-456
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