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We classify all meromorphic modular functions, showing that they are all rational functions of the elliptic modular function j.
As an application of j we use it to prove Picard’s theorem that a non-constant meromorphic function can omit at most one value.
This video is part of a lecture course by Richard Borcherds from 2021.