Sporadic groups
Channel: Richard E Borcherds
Date: 2020-11-22

This is an informal talk on sporadic groups given to the Archimedeans (the Cambridge undergraduate mathematical society). It discusses the classification of finite simple groups and some of the sporadic groups, and finishes by briefly describing monstrous moonshine.

For other Archimedeans talks see their youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdswONpWjfKTbpkBUP4fOyA

The paper by Feit and Thompson mentioned in the talk can be found here:
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.pjm/1103053941