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Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify how University of Colorado researchers handle their data collection. A student digs into a math problem that references his favorite superhero ...

Math is full of enormously complicated abstract ... between the so-called monster group and a special function from number theory. Before his death a few years ago, McKay unearthed lots of other ...