John Horton Conway
John Horton Conway FRS[2] (26 December 1937 – 11 April 2020) was an English mathematician. He is known for his theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory.
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| Born | John Horton Conway 26 December 1937[1] Liverpool, Lancashire, England |
| Died | 11 April 2020 (aged 82) |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD) |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Thesis | Homogeneous ordered sets (1964) |
| Doctoral students | Leonard Hyman Soicher[3] |
| Website | math |
He also worked in many branches of recreational mathematics, mainly for the invention of the cellular automaton called the Game of Life.
Conway was a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University in New Jersey.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
Conway died of COVID-19 on 11 April 2020 in New Brunswick, New Jersey at the age of 82.[11] He was diagnosed with the infection three days before his death.[11]
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A single Gosper's Glider Gun creating "gliders" in Conway's Game of Life
References
- ↑ CONWAY, Prof. John Horton. Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription needed)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Royal Society: John Conway Biography
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 John Horton Conway at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Conway, J. H.. Packing Lines, Planes, etc.: Packings in Grassmannian Spaces. Experimental Mathematics 5 (2) (1996). p. 139. doi:10.1080/10586458.1996.10504585.
- ↑ John Horton Conway's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription needed)
- ↑ Conway, J. H.. A new upper bound on the minimal distance of self-dual codes. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 36 (6) (1990). p. 1319. doi:10.1109/18.59931.
- ↑ Conway, J. H.. Self-dual codes over the integers modulo 4. Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 62 (1993). p. 30–45. doi:10.1016/0097-3165(93)90070-O.
- ↑ Conway, J.. Fast quantizing and decoding and algorithms for lattice quantizers and codes. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 28 (2) (1982). p. 227. doi:10.1109/TIT.1982.1056484.
- ↑ Conway, J. H.. Tiling with polyominoes and combinatorial group theory. Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 53 (2) (1990). p. 183. doi:10.1016/0097-3165(90)90057-4.
- ↑ MacTutor History of Mathematics archive: John Horton Conway
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 COVID-19 Kills Renowned Princeton Mathematician, 'Game Of Life' Inventor John Conway In 3 Days