Introduction from the book ``Vertex operator algebras and the Monster''

I. B. Frenkel' ; I. Lepovski ; A. Merman

Funkcionalʹnyj analiz i ego priloženiâ, Tome 25 (1991) no. 4, pp. 36-52.

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