Groups, Difference Sets, and the Monster—Proceedings of a Special Research Quarter at the Ohio State University, Spring 1993

The Spring 1993 research quarter at Ohio State gathered together mathematicians in a flurry of creative activity. The 29 selected papers represent the primary focus of that convocation and present interesting questions for future research in the areas of finite groups from a geometric view point, abelian and non-abelian difference sets, the Monster and related topics in number theory and physics, and computational group theory. The text is heavy with equations, but lacks an index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.