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Richard K. Guy

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British mathematician (1916-2020)

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Born: 30 September 1916
Died: 9 March 2020
Works: 25

Top works

Unsolved problems in geometry
Combinatorial Games
Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, 1st Edition, Volume 2
Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays
Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, 2nd Edition, Volume 1

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5 total works indexed

The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
· 1977 · cited 61,615x
The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 58,105x
Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 46,741x
ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 46,128x
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,528x

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Key dates

Born: 30 September 1916
Died: 9 March 2020

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Kenneth
Gender: male
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Place of birth: Nuneaton
Place of death: Calgary
Occupation: university teacher
Employer: University of London
Languages spoken: English language
Award: Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards

Connections

American Mathematical Monthly

John Horton Conway

Categories

1916 births 2020 deaths 20th-century English mathematicians 21st-century English mathematicians Academics of the University of London Academic staff of IIT Delhi Academic staff of the National University of Singapore Academic staff of the University of Calgary Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge British expatriates in Singapore British men centenarians

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Official website

math.ucalgary.ca/math_unitis/profiles/richard-guy

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P2650: combinatorics
P6104: WikiProject Mathematics
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British number theorists

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Royal Air Force personnel of World War II

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What links here285 pages

multiply perfect number

1/2 − 1/4 + 1/8 − 1/16 + ...

Erdős–Straus conjecture

John Horton Conway

almost perfect number

octahedral number

untouchable number

quasiperfect number

perfect totient number

Hadwiger–Nelson problem