Tag: Barth Moonshine

Moonshine II

(Continued from yesterday) The foreword by Wolf Barth in the 1990 Cambridge U. Press reissue of Hudson's 1905 classic Kummer's Quartic Surface covers some of the material in yesterday's post Moonshine. The…

Moonshine

Unexpected connections between areas of mathematics previously thought to be unrelated are sometimes referred to as "moonshine."  An example—  the apparent connections between parts of complex analysis and groups related…