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- $\Bbb {ATLAS}$ of finite groups by J. H. Conway, R. T. Curtis, S. P. Norton, R. A. Parker and R. A. Wilson
- 1985, xxxiv+252, $45.00
- MR Number: 0827219 (88g:20025) Oxford University Press, Eynsham,
- Reviewed by: R. L. Griess
- A characterisation of Leech’s lattice by J. H. Conway
- Inventiones Mathematicae 7, (1969), 137–142
- MR Number: 0245518 (39 #6824)
- Reviewed by: G. K. White
- A headache-causing problem by J. H. Conway, M. S. Paterson and U. S. S. R. Moscow
- American Mathematical Monthly 127, (2020), no. 4, 291–296
- MR Number: 4080553
- Reviewed by: Andrew James Simoson
- A simple construction for the Fischer–Griess monster group by J. H. Conway
- Inventiones Mathematicae 79, (1985), no. 3, 513–540
- MR Number: 782233 (86h:20019)
- Reviewed by: Geoffrey Mason
- The Mathieu group $M_{12}$ and its pseudogroup extension $M_{13}$ by John H. Conway, Noam D. Elkies and Jeremy L. Martin
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- MR Number: 2253008 (2007k:20005)
- Reviewed by: Peter M. Neumann
- Monstrous moonshine and monstrous Lie superalgebras by Richard E. Borcherds
- Inventiones Mathematicae 109, (1992), no. 2, 405–444
- MR Number: 1172696 (94f:11030)
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- Knot polynomials and Vassiliev’s invariants by Joan S Birman and Xiao-Song Lin
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- MR Number: 1198809 (94d:57010)
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- A polynomial invariant of oriented links by W. B. R. Lickorish and Kenneth C Millett
- Topology. An International Journal of Mathematics 26, (1987), no. 1, 107–141
- MR Number: 0880512 (88b:57012)
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- The Conway knot is not slice by Lisa Piccirillo
- Annals of Mathematics. Second Series 191, (2020), no. 2, 581–591
- MR Number: 4076631
- Reviewed by: Laurence R. Taylor
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- 1998, iv+169 pp., ISBN 3-540-62778-2, $79.95
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- Reviewed by: Robert A. Wilson
- The sensual (quadratic) form by John H. Conway
- 1997, xiv+152, ISBN 0-88385-030-3, $32.95
- MR Number: 1478672 (98k:11035) Mathematical Association of America, Washington, DC,
- Reviewed by: Carl Riehm
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