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John Horton Conway: Works & Research

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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John Horton Conway topic overview

The analysis highlights Works and Research as prominent areas in the source structure around John Horton Conway. 2 topics appear in more than one source area, which can help identify connections that are less obvious in a linear reading.

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Extracted relationships
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Concept neighborhoods
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What this topic covers Research coverage

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Major areas of research · 68 topics
Select publications · 24 topics
Overview · 13 topics
Awards and honours · 10 topics
Early life and education · 9 topics
Conway and Martin Gardner · 8 topics
Personal life and death · 2 topics

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Key facts & relationships

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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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Overview

Early life and education

Conway and Martin Gardner

Major areas of research

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Awards and honours

Select publications

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Advanced semantic analysis

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How John Horton Conway connects Entity context

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John Horton Conway → Alpert, AMS, April, Bibliography, Bloomsbury, Charles, Conway Archived, Conway The SciencesSchleicher, Conway's Prime Producing Machine, Dierk, Edmund, Games Scientific American, Genius, HarperCollins, Impressions, Interview, ISBN, Jan, John, John Conway
related to External links · 23
John Horton Conway → April, Archived Lectures, Bernoulli, Conway, Feat John Conway, Free Will Theorem, Game, John, John Conway, John Horton Conway's, Keith Hartnett, Life, Numberphile, Princeton, Proof, Quanta Magazine, Scopus, Video, Videos, YouTube Conway
Known for · 16
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
Doctoral students · 4
John Horton Conway → Adrian Mathias, Richard Borcherds, Robert Wilson, Simon Norton
Born · 1
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.
Doctoral advisor · 1
John Horton Conway → Harold Davenport
Education · 1
John Horton Conway → Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD)
Fields · 1
John Horton Conway → Mathematics
Thesis · 1
John Horton Conway → Homogeneous ordered sets (1964)

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Important terminology

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John Horton Conway relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 96 structured relationships around John Horton Conway. Examples in this analysis include John Horton Conway → Born → (1937-12-26)26 December 1937 Liverpool, England and John Horton Conway → Died → 11 April 2020(2020-04-11) (aged 82) New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

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John Horton ConwayBorn(1937-12-26)26 December 1937 Liverpool, England1.00infobox
John Horton ConwayDied11 April 2020(2020-04-11) (aged 82) New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.1.00infobox
John Horton ConwayDoctoral advisorHarold Davenport1.00infobox
John Horton ConwayDoctoral studentsRichard Borcherds1.00infobox
John Horton ConwayDoctoral studentsAdrian Mathias1.00infobox
John Horton ConwayDoctoral studentsSimon Norton1.00infobox
John Horton ConwayDoctoral studentsRobert Wilson1.00infobox
John Horton ConwayEducationGonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD)1.00infobox
John Horton ConwayFieldsMathematics1.00infobox
John Horton ConwayKnown forATLAS of Finite Groups1.00infobox
John Horton ConwayKnown forConway chained arrow notation1.00infobox
John Horton ConwayKnown forConway criterion1.00infobox
John Horton ConwayKnown forConway groups1.00infobox
John Horton ConwayKnown forConway notation (knot theory)1.00infobox
John Horton ConwayKnown forConway's knot polynomial1.00infobox
John Horton ConwayKnown forConway polyhedron notation1.00infobox
John Horton ConwayKnown forConway's Game of Life1.00infobox
John Horton ConwayKnown forDoomsday algorithm1.00infobox
John Horton ConwayKnown forFree will theorem1.00infobox
John Horton ConwayKnown forIcosians1.00infobox
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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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For John Horton Conway, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects John Horton Conway with Major areas of research. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

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John Horton ConwayMajor areas of research · splits 84 ⟂ 69
John Horton ConwaySelect publications · splits 128 ⟂ 25
John Horton ConwayOverview · splits 139 ⟂ 14
John Horton ConwayAwards and honours · splits 142 ⟂ 11
John Horton ConwaySources · splits 142 ⟂ 11
John Horton ConwayEarly life and education · splits 143 ⟂ 10
John Horton ConwayConway and Martin Gardner · splits 144 ⟂ 9
John Horton ConwayPersonal life and death · splits 150 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

John Horton Conway

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Edges152
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Avg. degree1.99
Density0.013072
Components1

Source & methodology

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Source: Wikipedia — John Horton Conway · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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