A 45-CM MONSTER

A Double-Headed Monster

A Monster Lie Algebra ?

We define a remarkable Lie algebra of infinite dimension, and conjecture that it may be related to the Fischer-Griess Monster group. The idea was mooted in [C-N] that there might be an infinite-dimensional Lie algebra (or superalgebra) L that in some sense “explains” the Fischer-Griess ‘Monster” group M . In this chapter we produce some candidates for L based on properties of the Leech lattice ...

A Double-Headed Monster

A double-headed monster was born in the Railway Hospital, Samastipur, on 5th July, 1948. It is an interesting case because of its rarity; the photograph (plate XXII) tells its own story. Dr. Mody, in his jurisprudence, gives a picture of such monster without any detail. The woman was a sweeper by caste, second para, and fairly well built. She came to hospital in a precarious condition, having b...

A Thoracopagus Monster

A Monster Kidney

kept the sitting posture day and night, for lying down was' quite out of the question, and he dozed at night as he sat. Dr. Gayer, the Civil Surgeon, was so much taken up by the general appearance of the man, contrasted with the huge size of his abdomen, that he took a photographic view of him,?the genitals and lower extremities were as enormously swollen as the head, face aud arms were lean an...