Definition:Fischer-Griess Monster/Historical Note/Mistake

Source Work

1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.):

The Dictionary

$808,017,424,794,512,875,886,459,904,961,710,757,005,754,368,000,000,000$

Mistake

... Monster sporadic group, discovered by Fischer in $1974$.

The existence of the Monster sporadic group was actually deduced by Bernd Fischer in $1973$, but not actually created until $1981$, by Robert Louis Griess, Jr..

Sources

• 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $808,017,424,794,512,875,886,459,904,961,710,757,005,754,368,000,000,000$