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The title makes me think it's talking about Richard Borcherds, who solved the moonshine conjecture (and got the Fields Medal for that), and is now interested in
by hyh1048576 10y ago
The title makes me think it's talking about Richard Borcherds, who solved the moonshine conjecture (and got the Fields Medal for that), and is now interested in TQFT (topological quantum field theory).
However it's about Iris Cheng. I'm not saying she's not good or anything like that, but how can the author call someone "moonshine master" while what happened is "She happened to have read a book about the “monstrous moonshine,”"?
- danharaj 10y agoProbably because her CV [1] is full of uses of moonshine algebra. I'm sure there's multiple mathematicians you could call a master of moonshine. [1] https://arxiv.org/a/cheng_m_1.html https://arxiv.org/a/cheng_m_1.html
- 77pt77 10y agoHomepage https://sites.google.com/site/mcheng0606/research https://sites.google.com/site/mcheng0606/research