John Horton Conway
English mathematician (1937–2020)
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 advisor | Harold Davenport[3] |
| 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]
References
change- ↑ "CONWAY, Prof. John Horton". Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
- ↑ 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.; Hardin, R. H.; Sloane, N. J. A. (1996). "Packing Lines, Planes, etc.: Packings in Grassmannian Spaces". Experimental Mathematics. 5 (2): 139. arXiv:math/0208004. doi:10.1080/10586458.1996.10504585. S2CID 10895494.
- ↑ John Horton Conway's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ↑ Conway, J. H.; Sloane, N. J. A. (1990). "A new upper bound on the minimal distance of self-dual codes". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 36 (6): 1319. doi:10.1109/18.59931.
- ↑ Conway, J. H.; Sloane, N. J. A. (1993). "Self-dual codes over the integers modulo 4". Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A. 62: 30–45. doi:10.1016/0097-3165(93)90070-O.
- ↑ Conway, J.; Sloane, N. (1982). "Fast quantizing and decoding and algorithms for lattice quantizers and codes" (PDF). IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 28 (2): 227. doi:10.1109/TIT.1982.1056484.
- ↑ Conway, J. H.; Lagarias, J. C. (1990). "Tiling with polyominoes and combinatorial group theory". Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A. 53 (2): 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
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