Download or read book Proceedings on Moonshine and Related Topics written by John McKay and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings of the Moonshine workshop held at the Centre de Recherches Mathematiques (CRM) in Montreal. In this volume, all the classical Moonshine themes are presented, namely the Monster simple group and other finite groups, automorphic functions and forms and related congruence groups, and vertex algebras and their representations. These topics appear in either a pure form or in a blend of algebraic geometry dealing with algebraic surfaces, Picard-Fuchsequations, and hypergeometric functions.