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John Horton Conway

John Horton Conway (26 December 1937 – 11 April 2020) was an English mathematician. He was active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory. He also made contributions to many branches of recreational mathematics, most notably the invention of the cellular automaton called the Game of Life.

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Known for
ATLAS of Finite Groups · Conway chained arrow notation · Conway criterion · Conway groups · Conway notation (knot theory)
Education
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD)
Born
(1937-12-26)26 December 1937 Liverpool, England
Died
11 April 2020(2020-04-11) (aged 82) New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.
Doctoral advisor
Harold Davenport
Doctoral students
Richard Borcherds · Adrian Mathias · Simon Norton · Robert Wilson

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John Horton Conway → ATLAS of Finite Groups, Conway chained arrow notation, Conway criterion, Conway groups, Conway notation (knot theory), Conway polyhedron notation, Conway's Game of Life, Conway's knot polynomial, Doomsday algorithm, Free will theorem, Icosians, Look-and-say sequence, Mathieu groupoid, Monstrous moonshine, Pinwheel tiling, Surreal numbers
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John Horton Conway → Adrian Mathias, Richard Borcherds, Robert Wilson, Simon Norton
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John Horton Conway → (1937-12-26)26 December 1937 Liverpool, England
Died · 1
John Horton Conway → 11 April 2020(2020-04-11) (aged 82) New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.
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John Horton Conway → Harold Davenport
Education · 1
John Horton Conway → Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD)
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John Horton Conway → Mathematics
Thesis · 1
John Horton Conway → Homogeneous ordered sets (1964)

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John Horton ConwayKnown forDoomsday algorithm1.00infobox
John Horton ConwayKnown forFree will theorem1.00infobox
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John Horton ConwayKnown forLook-and-say sequence1.00infobox
John Horton ConwayKnown forMathieu groupoid1.00infobox
John Horton ConwayKnown forMonstrous moonshine1.00infobox
John Horton ConwayKnown forPinwheel tiling1.00infobox
John Horton ConwayKnown forSurreal numbers1.00infobox
John Horton ConwayThesisHomogeneous ordered sets (1964)1.00infobox
John Horton ConwayWebsiteArchived version @ web.archive.org1.00infobox
John Horton ConwayWorkplacesUniversity of Cambridge Princeton University1.00infobox

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