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John Horton Conway
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English mathematician (1937–2020)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1937-12-26 ) 26 December 1937, Liverpool , England
- Died
- 11 April 2020 (2020-04-11) (aged 82), New Brunswick, New Jersey , U.S.
- Education
- Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge ( BA , MA , PhD )
- Awards
- Berwick Prize (1971) Fellow of the Royal Society (1981) Pólya Prize (1987) Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (1998) Leroy P. Steele Prize (2000)
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- University of Cambridge , Princeton University
- Thesis
- Homogeneous ordered sets (1964)
- Doctoral advisor
- Harold Davenport
- Doctoral students
- Richard Borcherds Adrian Mathias Simon Norton Robert Wilson
- Website
- Archived version @ web.archive.org
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Conway
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Liverpool
- Place of death
- New Brunswick
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Gonville and Caius College
- Employer
- Princeton University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Notable work
- Look-and-say sequence
- Doctoral advisor
- Harold Davenport
- Field of work
- mathematical game
- Image
- John H Conway 2005 (cropped) (2).jpg
- Residence
- New Brunswick
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- John Horton Conway
- date of birth
- 1937-12-26
- Erdős number
- 1
- name in native language
- John Horton Conway
- topic's main category
- Category:John Horton Conway
- date of death
- 2020-04-11
- cause of death
- COVID-19
- manner of death
- natural causes
- medical condition
- COVID-19
- student
- E. Randol Schoenberg
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Conway spent the first half of his career at the University of Cambridge before moving to the United States, where he held the John von Neumann Professorship at Princeton University for the rest of his career. On 11 April 2020, at age 82, he died of complications from COVID-19.
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