These conference papers should dispel any post-classification pessimism about the future of the theory of finite simple groups. Having noted that the theory dev

Proceedings containing twenty articles by leading experts in group theory and its applications.

The second volume of a series devoted to reorganizing and simplifying proof of the classification of the finite simple groups. In a single chapter, it lays the

This is an almost verbatim reproduction of the author's lecture notes written in 1983-84 at Ohio State University, Columbus. A substantial update is given in th

* Introduces the fundamental theory of vertex operator algebras and its basic techniques and examples. * Begins with a detailed presentation of the theoretical