Browsing Student Research Papers (Mathematics) by Subject "Representation Theory"

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Burnside's Theorem

Linman, Julie (2010-04)

Just as prime numbers can be thought of as the building blocks of the natural numbers, in a similar fashion, simple groups may be considered the building blocks of finite groups. Burnside considered the following quest ...
The j-Function and the Monster

Scherer, Asa (2010-08-16)

The first published notion that the j-function was in any way related to the Monster came in 1979, when Conway and Norton noted in [CN79] that each coefficient in the q- expansion of the j-function could be written as a ...