(Gelfand's prophecy:) Sporadic simple groups are not groups, they are objects from a still unknown infinite family, some number of which happened to be groups, just by chance.
...first here: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2006/09/mathematical_kin...
It's stayed with me ever since.
(Gelfand's prophecy:) Sporadic simple groups are not groups, they are objects from a still unknown infinite family, some number of which happened to be groups, just by chance.
...first here: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2006/09/mathematical_kin...
It's stayed with me ever since.