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John McKay

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Also known as J. K. S. McKay

mathematician (1939–2022)

Person · Open Library

Works
29

Top works

  • The Korean peninsula after Kim Il Sung
  • Mckay
  • Moonshine - the First Quarter Century and Beyond
  • Sun Will Always Shine
  • Mosquitoes

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
4,303
Total plays
13,161

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post-punkGothic RockSiouxsie and the BansheesAmerican classical pianist

John McKay was the guitar player of Siouxsie and The Banshees and his influence lives on; many of the most influential guitarists of the past four decades credit him as a major influence - Geordie from Killing Joke, Jim Reid of The Jesus And Mary Chain, U2's The Edge, Thurston Moore, Johnny Marr and even the two guitarists - The Cure's Robert Smith and Magazine's John McGeoch - who followed him in The Banshees. 

 McKay's burgeoning status as <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+McKay">Read

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

    · 1996 · cited 200,169x

  2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 41,509x

  3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    · 2000 · cited 36,302x

  4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

    · 2007 · cited 34,187x

  5. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

    · 1992 · cited 28,819x

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Quotes

  • “I think it's a good idea.”
  • “These guys are almost gutless, and the ones that aren't that are brainless.”
  • “Can't stop the pass or the run. Otherwise, we're in great shape.”
  • “There are a lot of careers that are gonna end on Monday.”
  • “[To the media after a game] Well, we couldn't block...but we made up for it by not tackling.”
  • “We've now proven that we can't play on the road or in front of our home crowd.”

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Wikidata facts

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date of birth
1939-06-16
Erdős number
2
date of death
2022-04-19
name in native language
John McKay
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Connections

Concordia University
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University of Edinburgh
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University of Manchester
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Mathematics Genealogy Project
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Université de Montréal
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Lie group
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Handle System
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finite group
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Royal Society of Canada
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Dulwich College
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monstrous moonshine
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sporadic group
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CRM-Fields-PIMS prize
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INSPIRE-HEP
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ADE classification
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Categories

1939 births2022 deaths20th-century Canadian mathematicians20th-century English mathematicians21st-century Canadian mathematicians21st-century English mathematiciansAcademic staff of Concordia UniversityAlumni of the University of EdinburghAlumni of the University of ManchesterBritish mathematiciansEnglish emigrants to CanadaFellows of the Royal Society of CanadaGroup theoristsPeople from Kent