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      A moonshine dialogue in mathematical physics

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          Phys and Math are two colleagues at the University of Sa{\c c}enbon (Crefan Kingdom), dialoguing about the remarkable efficiency of mathematics for physics. They talk about the notches on the Ishango bone, the various uses of psi in maths and physics, they arrive at dessins d'enfants, moonshine concepts, Rademacher sums and their significance in the quantum world. You should not miss their eccentric proposal of relating Bell's theorem to the Baby Monster group. Their hyperbolic polygons show a considerable singularity/cusp structure that our modern age of computers is able to capture. Henri Poincar{\'e} would have been happy to see it.

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            Hidden Variables and the Two Theorems of John Bell

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            Although skeptical of the prohibitive power of no-hidden-variables theorems, John Bell was himself responsible for the two most important ones. I describe some recent versions of the lesser known of the two (familar to experts as the "Kochen-Specker theorem") which have transparently simple proofs. One of the new versions can be converted without additional analysis into a powerful form of the very much better known "Bell's Theorem", thereby clarifying the conceptual link between these two results of Bell.
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              Modular Subgroups, Forms, Curves and Surfaces

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                2015-03-06
                2015-07-08
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                10.3390/math3030746
                1503.02677
                e23133c5-e3cc-4fac-aeac-e94e78fc4ebc

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                new version expanded for publication in Mathematics (MDPI), special issue "Mathematical physics" initial: Trick or Truth: the Mysterious Connection Between Physics and Mathematics, FQXi essay contest - Spring, 2015
                physics.pop-ph quant-ph
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                Quantum physics & Field theory,General physics
                Quantum physics & Field theory, General physics

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