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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

The Bulletin publishes expository articles on contemporary mathematical research, written in a way that gives insight to mathematicians who may not be experts in the particular topic. The Bulletin also publishes reviews of selected books in mathematics and short articles in the Mathematical Perspectives section, both by invitation only.

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Mathematical Perspectives
Selections Reprinted from Mathematical Reviews

Review information
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 58 (2021), 443-456PDF
Published electronically: May 27, 2021

$\Bbb {ATLAS}$ 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
Experimental Mathematics 15, (2006), no. 2, 223–236
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)
Reviewed by: Steven N. Kass

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

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)
Reviewed by: Józef H. Przytycki

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

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

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