John K. S. McKay (born 18 November 1939, Kent, died 19 April 2022, Montreal) is a dual British/Canadian citizen, a mathematician at Concordia University, known for his discovery of monstrous moonshine, his joint construction of some sporadic simple groups, for the McKay conjecture in representation theory, and for the McKay correspondence relating certain finite groups to Lie groups.
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1939
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19 April 2022 (aged 82)
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