Recap: In 2022, twenty-four Minnesota libraries joined together in a commitment to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota. It is called the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. Here is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection.
Some books make you smile, even when the subject is serious and you should be more respectful. Within the realm of finite algebraic groups, one mathematical group is referred to as the Monster. One book on Winona State’s retention list studies the Monster, and—all kidding aside—the book’s first author is named Igor. … But does he pronounce it “Eye-gor”?
Frenkel, Igor, James Lepowsky, and Arne Meurman. Vertex Operator Algebras and the Monster. Boston: Academic Press, 1988.
