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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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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.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| John Horton Conway | Born | (1937-12-26)26 December 1937 Liverpool, England | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Horton Conway | Died | 11 April 2020(2020-04-11) (aged 82) New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S. | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Horton Conway | Doctoral advisor | Harold Davenport | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Horton Conway | Doctoral students | Richard Borcherds | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Horton Conway | Doctoral students | Adrian Mathias | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Horton Conway | Doctoral students | Simon Norton | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Horton Conway | Doctoral students | Robert Wilson | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Horton Conway | Education | Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD) | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Horton Conway | Fields | Mathematics | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Horton Conway | Known for | ATLAS of Finite Groups | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Horton Conway | Known for | Conway chained arrow notation | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Horton Conway | Known for | Conway criterion | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Horton Conway | Known for | Conway groups | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Horton Conway | Known for | Conway notation (knot theory) | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Horton Conway | Known for | Conway's knot polynomial | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Horton Conway | Known for | Conway polyhedron notation | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Horton Conway | Known for | Conway's Game of Life | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Horton Conway | Known for | Doomsday algorithm | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Horton Conway | Known for | Free will theorem | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Horton Conway | Known for | Icosians | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Horton Conway | Known for | Look-and-say sequence | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Horton Conway | Known for | Mathieu groupoid | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Horton Conway | Known for | Monstrous moonshine | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Horton Conway | Known for | Pinwheel tiling | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Horton Conway | Known for | Surreal numbers | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Horton Conway | Thesis | Homogeneous ordered sets (1964) | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Horton Conway | Website | Archived version @ web.archive.org | 1.00 | infobox |
| John Horton Conway | Workplaces | University of Cambridge Princeton University | 1.00 | infobox |
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Source: Wikipedia — John Horton Conway · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout