John McKay (mathematician)
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John K. S. McKay (born 1939) is a mathematician at Concordia University in Canada, known for his discovery of monstrous moonshine, his joint construction of some sporadic simple groups, and for the McKay correspondence relating certain finite groups to Lie groups.
McKay earned his Ph.D. in 1970 from the University of Edinburgh.[1]
He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2000, and won the 2003 CRM-Fields Prize.
In April 2007 a Joint Conference was organized by the University of Montreal and Concordia University honouring four decades of the work of John McKay.
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