John McKay

matemático britânico

John McKay (Kent, 18 de novembro de 1939Montreal, 19 de abril de 2022) foi um matemático britânico-canadense. É professor da Universidade Concórdia.

John McKay
Nascimento 18 de novembro de 1939
Kent, Reino Unido
Morte 19 de abril de 2022 (82 anos)
Montreal, Canadá
Cidadania Reino Unido
Alma mater
Ocupação matemático
Distinções Prêmio CRM-Fields-PIMS (2003)
Empregador(a) Universidade Concórdia
Campo(s) matemática

É conhecido pela descoberta do Monstrous moonshine.

Publicações

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  • McKay, J. (1965). «Algorithm 262: Number of restricted partitions of N». Comm. ACM. 8 (8): 493. doi:10.1145/365474.366060 
  • McKay, J. (1965). «Algorithm 263: Partition generator». Comm. ACM. 8 (8): 493. doi:10.1145/365474.366063 
  • McKay, J. (1965). «Algorithm 264: Map of partitions into integers». Comm. ACM. 8 (8): 493. doi:10.1145/365474.365501 
  • McKay, J. (1967). «On the representation of symmetric polynomials». Comm. ACM. 10 (7): 428–429. doi:10.1145/363427.363452 
  • McKay, J. (1967). «Symmetric group characters». Comm. ACM. 10 (7): 451–452. doi:10.1145/363427.363475 
  • McKay, J.; Bratley, P. (1967). «Algorithm 305: Symmetric polynomials». Comm. ACM. 10 (7). doi:10.1145/363427.363465 
  • McKay, J.; Bratley, P. (1967). «Algorithm 313: Multi-dimensional partition generator». Comm. ACM. 10 (10): 666. doi:10.1145/363717.363783 
  • McKay, J.; Atkin, A. O. L.; Bratley, P.; Macdonald, I. G. (1967). «Some computations for m-dimensional partitions». Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 63 (4): 1097–1100. doi:10.1017/S0305004100042171 
  • McKay, J.; Bratley, P. (1968). «More amicable numbers». Math Comp. 22 (103): 677–678. JSTOR 2004549 
  • McKay, J. (1968). «Remark on algorithm 307: Symmetric group characters». Comm. ACM. 11 (1). 14 páginas. doi:10.1145/362851.362867 
  • McKay, J. (1968). «Remark on algorithm 305: Symmetric Polynomials». Comm. ACM. 11 (4): 272. doi:10.1145/362991.363049 
  • McKay, J. (1968). «On the evaluation of multiplicative combinatorial expressions». Comm. ACM. 11 (6): 492. doi:10.1145/363347.363357 
  • McKay, J. (1968), «A method of computing the character table of a finite group», in: Churchhouse, R. F.; Herz, Computers in mathematical research, North-Holland Publishing 
  • McKay, J.; Higman, G. (1969). «The construction of Janko's simple group of order 50232960». Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 1 (2): 89–94. doi:10.1112/blms/1.2.219-t 
  • McKay, J.; Bratley, P.; Lunnon, W. F. (1970). «Amicable numbers and their distribution». Math. Comp. 24 (110): 431–432. JSTOR 2004490 
  • McKay, J. (1970). «Algorithm 371: Partitions in natural order». Comm. ACM. 13 (1): 52. doi:10.1145/361953.361980 
  • McKay, J. (1970). «Algorithm 391: Unitary symmetric polynomials». Comm. ACM. 13: 512. doi:10.1145/362705.362719 
  • McKay, J. (1970), «The construction of the character table of a finite group from generators and relations», in: Leech, Computational problems in abstract algebra, Pergamon Press, pp. 89–100 
  • McKay, J. (1970), «Multi-dimensional partitions», in: Welsh, Combinatorial theory and its applications, Academic Press 
  • McKay, J. (1971), «Subgroups and permutation characters», in: Birkhoff; Hall, Proc. Symp. Pure Math. AMS-SIAM, pp. 171–181 
  • McKay, J.; Wales, D. (1971). «The multiplier of the Higman-Sims simple group». Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. 3 (3): 283–285. doi:10.1112/blms/3.3.283 
  • McKay, J.; Wales, D. (1971). «The multiplier of the simple groups of order 604800 and 50232960». Journal of Algebra. 17 (2): 262–272. doi:10.1016/0021-8693(71)90033-0 
  • McKay, J. (1971). «Groups and subgroups, presentations and representations». Proc. 2nd ACM symposium on symbolic and algebraic manipulation. p. 104. doi:10.1145/800204.806274 
  • McKay, J. (1972). «Irreducible representations of odd degree». Journal of Algebra. 20 (2): 416–418. doi:10.1016/0021-8693(72)90066-X 
  • Lam, C. W. H.; McKay, J. (1973). «Arithmetic over a finite field, Algorithm 469». Comm. ACM. 16 (11): 699. doi:10.1145/355611.362544 
  • McKay, J.; Regener, E. (1974). «Algorithm 482:Transitivity sets». Comm. ACM. 17 (8): 470. doi:10.1145/361082.361098 
  • McKay, J. (1974), «Computing with finite simple groups», Proceedings 2nd International conference in group theory, 372, Springer-Verlag, pp. 448–452 
  • Jonsson, W.; McKay, J. (1976). «More about the Mathieu group». Canadian Journal of Mathematics. 28: 929–937. MR 0427103 
  • McKay, J. (1976). «The largest degrees of irreducible characters of the symmetric group». Mathematics of Computation. 30 (135): 624–631. JSTOR 2005331 
  • Fischer, J.; McKay, J. (1978). «The non-abelian simple groups G, |G| < 106 - maximal subgroups». Mathematics of Computation. 32 (144): 1293–1302. JSTOR 2006354. MR 0498831 
  • Erbach, D. W.; Fischer, J.; McKay, J. (1979). «Polynomials with PSL(2,7) as Galois group». Journal of Number Theory. 11 (1): 69–75. MR 0527761. doi:10.1016/0022-314X(79)90020-9 
  • McKay, J. (1979). «Some remarks on computing Galois groups». SIAM Journal on Computing. 8: 344–347. MR 0539252 
  • Cannon, J.; McKay, J.; Young, K. C. (1979). «The non-abelian simple groups G, |G| < 105 - minimal presentations». Communications in Algebra. 7 (13): 1397–1406. doi:10.1080/00927877908822409 
  • McKay, J. (1979). «The non-abelian simple groups G, |G\| < 106 - character tables». Comm. in Algebr. 7 (13): 1407–1445. doi:10.1080/00927877908822410 
  • McKay, J.; Young, K. C. (1979). «The non-abelian simple groups G, |G| < 106 - minimal generating pairs». Mathematics of Computation. 33 (146): 812–814. JSTOR 2006317 
  • McKay, J. (1980). «Graphs singularities and finite groups». Proc. of 1979 Santa Cruz group theory conference. AMS Symposia in Pure Mathematics. 37. pp. 183–186. ISBN 0-8218-1440-0 
  • McKay, J. (1981). «Cartan matrices, finite groups of quaternions, and Kleinian singularities». Proc. AMS. 81: 153–154. doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1981-0589160-8 
  • McKay, J.; Patera, J.; Sharp, R.T. (1981). «Second and fourth indices of plethysms». J. Math. Phys. 22 (12): 2770–2774. MR 0638081. doi:10.1063/1.525183 
  • Ford, D. J.; McKay, J. (1982), «Representations and Coxeter graphs», The Geometric Vein, Springer-Verlag 
  • Lam, C. W. H.; Thiel, L.; Swiercz, S.; McKay, J. (1983). «The nonexistence of ovals in a projective plane of order 10». Discrete Math. 45 (2–3): 319–321. MR 0704249. doi:10.1016/0012-365X(83)90049-3 
  • Butler, G.; McKay, J. (1983). «The transitive groups of degree up to eleven». Comm. in Algebra. 11 (7): 863–911. doi:10.1080/00927878308822884 
  • Kolesova, G.; McKay, J. (1984), «Practical strategies for computing Galois groups», in: Atkinson, M. D., Computing in Groups, Academic Press, pp. 297–299, MR 0760664 
  • Dummit, D.; Kisilevsky, H.; McKay, J. (1985). «Multiplicative products of η functions». American Math. Soc. Contemporary Mathematics. 45: 89–98. MR 0822235 
  • McKay, J., ed. (1985). «Finite groups - Coming of age». American Math. Soc. Contemporary Mathematics. 45 
  • McKay, J.; Regener, E. (1985). «Actions of permutation groups on r-sets». Comm. in Algebra. 13 (3): 619–630. MR 0773753. doi:10.1080/00927878508823180 
  • Soicher, L. H.; McKay, J. (1985). «Computing Galois groups over the rationals». J. Number theory. 20 (3): 273–281. doi:10.1016/0022-314X(85)90022-8 
  • Ford, D.; McKay, J. (1986). From polynomials to Galois groups. International EUROCAL conference in computer algebra. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 204. Springer-Verlag. pp. 535–536. doi:10.1007/3-540-15984-3_324 
  • McKay, J.; Stauduhar, R. (1987). «Coda to a theorem of Schur». Crelle J. 377: 219–220 
  • McKay, J. (1987). «On computing discriminants». Amer. Math. Monthly. 94 (6): 523–527. JSTOR 2322843 
  • McKay, J. (1988), «Advances in computational Galois theory», in: Tangora, Computers in Algebra, 111, Marcel Dekker, pp. 99–101 
  • Conder, M.; McKay, J. (1988). «A necessary condition for transitivity of a finite permutation group». Bull. Lond. Maths. Soc. 20 (3): 235–238. doi:10.1112/blms/20.3.235 
  • Ford, D.; McKay, J. (1989), «Computation of Galois groups from polynomials over the rationals», in: Chudnovsky; Jenks, Computer Algebra, 113, Marcel Dekker, pp. 145–150 
  • McKay, J.; Strauss, H. (1990). «The q-series of monstrous moonshine & the decomposition of the head characters». Comm. in Algebra. 18 (1): 253–278. doi:10.1080/00927879008823911 
  • Ford, D.; McKay, J. (1989). «Ramifications of Ramanujan's work on eta-products». Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 99: 221–229 
  • Darmon, H.; McKay, J. (1991). «A continued fraction and fixed-point-free permutations». Amer. Math. Monthly. 98 (1): 25–26. JSTOR 2324031 
  • McKay, J. (1991). «A generalized Hecke operator and functions like j(z)». AMS Abstracts. 12: 283 
  • Alexander, D.; Cummins, C.; McKay, J.; Simons, C. (1992), Liebeck; Saxl, eds., «Groups, Combinatorics and Geometry», Cam. Univ. Press, LMS Lecture Note Series, 165: 87–98, MR 1200252  |contribuição= ignorado (ajuda)
  • Casperson, D.; McKay, J. (1992). «An ideal decomposition algorithm». AMS Abstracts. 13: 405 
  • Conway, J.; McKay, J. (abril de 1992). «The Mathieu groups as Galois groups». AMS Abstracts 
  • Casperson, D.; McKay, J. (1994). «Symmetric functions, m-sets, and Galois groups». Math. Comp. 63 (208): 749–757. JSTOR 2153295. doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-1994-1234424-5 
  • Ford, D.; McKay, J.; Norton, S. (1994). «More on replicable functions». Comm. in Algebra. 22: 5175–5193. doi:10.1080/00927879408825127 
  • McKay, J. (1995). «A note on the elliptic curves of Harada-Lang». In: Arasu, K. T. Groups, Difference Sets and the Monster. [S.l.]: de Gruyter. p. 409. ISBN 3-11-014791-2 
  • Casperson, D.; Ford, D.; McKay, J. (1996). «Ideal Decompositions and Subfields». J. Symb. Comp. 21 (2): 133–137. doi:10.1006/jsco.1996.0005 
  • Conder, M.; McKay, J. (1996). «The marking of the Golay code». New Zealand J. Math. 25: 133–139. Predefinição:Citeseerx 
  • Conway, J.; Hulpke, A.; McKay, J. (1996). «On transitive permutation groups». J. of Mathematics & Computation. 1 
  • Cohn, H.; McKay, J. (1996). «Spontaneous generation of modular invariants». Math. Comp. 65 (215): 1295–1309. JSTOR 2153808. doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-96-00726-0 
  • Mattman, T.; McKay, J. (1997). «Computation of Galois groups over function fields». Math. Comp. 66 (218): 823–831. JSTOR 2153898. doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-97-00831-4 
  • McKay, J.; Stauduhar, R. P. (1997). «Finding relations among the roots of an irreducible polynomial». Proceedings of ISSAC'97. Maui. pp. 75–77. doi:10.1145/258726.258752 
  • Noro, M.; McKay, J. (1997). «Computation of replicable functions on RISA/Asir». Proceedings of PASCO'97. Maui. pp. 130–138. doi:10.1145/266670.266713 
  • McKay, J. (1997). The essentials of moonshine. ICU Suzuki Conf 
  • McKay, J.; Sebbar, A. (1998). «Fuchsian groups, Schwarzians, and lattices». Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris. 327 (4): 343–348. doi:10.1016/S0764-4442(99)80045-7 
  • McKay, J. (1999). «The semi-affine Coxeter-Dynkin diagram and G < SU2». Can. J. Math. 51: 1226–1229 
  • McKay, J. (1999). «Semi-affine Coxeter-Dynkin graphs and G < SU2». arXiv:math/9907089  
  • Harnad, J.; McKay, J. (2000). «Modular Solutions to Equations of Halphen Type». Proc. Roy. Soc. A. 456: 261–294. MR 1811320 
  • Harnad, J.; McKay, J. (2000). «Modular Invariants and Generalized Halphen Systems». C. R. M. Proc. 25: 181–195. MR 1771721 
  • McKay, J.; Sebbar, A. (2000). «Fuchsian groups, Automorphic functions, and Schwarzians». Math. Annalen. 318 (2): 255–275. doi:10.1007/s002080000116 
  • Matzat, B.; McKay, J.; Yokoyama, Y. (2000). «Algorithmic Methods in Galois Theory». J. Symb. Comp. 30: 631–872. doi:10.1006/jsco.2000.0389 
  • McKay, J.; Sebbar, A. (2001), «Arithmetic Semistable Elliptic Surfaces», Proceedings of Moonshine Workshop 
  • McKay, J.; Sebbar, A. (2001), «Proceedings on Moonshine and Related Topics», CRM Proceedings and Lecture Notes, 30 
  • Ford, D.J.; McKay, J. (2002). «Monstrous Moonshine - Problems Arising I, Tate Characters» 
  • Cox, D. A.; McKay, J.; Stevenhagen, P. (2004). «Principal Moduli and Class Fields». Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 36 (1): 3–12. doi:10.1112/S0024609303002583 
  • Conway, J.; McKay, J.; Sebbar, A. (2004). «On the discrete groups of Moonshine». Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132: 2233–2240. doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-04-07421-0 
  • McKay, John; Sebbar, Abdellah (1 de janeiro de 2007). Pierre, ed. Replicable Functions: An Introduction. [S.l.]: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 373-386. ISBN 978-3-540-30307-7. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-30308-4_10 
  • McKay, John; Sevilla, David (2008). «Aplicacion de la descomposicion racional univariada a monstrous moonshine». arXiv:0805.2311  
  • McKay, John; Sevilla, David (2008). «Decomposing replicable functions». LMS J. Comput. Math. 11: 146–171. MR 2410918 
  • McKay, J. (2009), «Introduction and Background», Groups and Symmetries. From Neolithic Scots to John McKay, CRM Proceedings and Lecture Notes, 47, Am. Math. Soc, pp. 1–2 
  • Conway, John; McKay, J.; Trojan, Allan (2010). «Galois groups over function fields of positive characteristic». Proc. of the AMS. 138: 1205–1212. doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-09-10130-2 

John McKay morreu no dia 19 de abril de 2022, aos 82 anos de idade.[1]

Referências

  1. «:: Centre de recherches mathématiques official Web site ::». Centre de Recherches Mathématiques. Consultado em 22 de abril de 2022 

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