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    Robert Louis Griess, Jr. (born 1945, Savannah, Georgia) is a mathematician working on finite simple groups and vertex algebras. He is currently the John...
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    algebra known as group theory, the monster group M (also known as the Fischer–Griess monster, or the friendly giant) is the largest sporadic simple group, having...
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    In group theory, the term pariah was introduced by Robert Griess in Griess (1982) to refer to the six sporadic simple groups which are not subquotients...
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    multiplier has order 2, and its outer automorphism group is trivial. In 1982 Robert Griess showed that Ru cannot be a subquotient of the monster group. Thus it...
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    subgroups (sections). These twenty have been called the happy family by Robert Griess, and can be organized into three generations. Mn for n = 11, 12, 22...
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    were discovered or conjectured in 1965–1975, culminating in 1981, when Robert Griess announced that he had constructed Bernd Fischer's "Monster group". The...
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    that is a subquotient of the monster group; it is thus part of what Robert Griess calls the Happy Family. Since it is also found in the Conway group Co1...
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    Ian Goulden Jeremy Gray Mary W. Gray Matthew D. Green Brian Greene Robert Griess Phillip Griffiths Rostislav Grigorchuk Uwe Grimm Mikhail Leonidovich...
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  • Fulton Jean-Yves Girard Roland Glowinski Gene Howard Golub R. L. Graham Robert Griess M. L. Gromov Joe Harris F. Reese Harvey D. R. Heath-Brown Gennadi M...
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    571,955,000 points using a computer by Jeffrey Leon and Charles Sims. Robert Griess later found a computer-free construction using the fact that its double...
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