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John Horton Conway

John Horton Conway (born December 26, 1937, Liverpool, England), the prolific mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory

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Legal name, Full name: "John Horton Conway"
Born: ▶
1937, December 1937, December 26th 1937, the United Kingdom, England, …
Europe, the EU, Great Britain, Liverpool, the world, Western Europe, Lancashire, the British Isles, the Northern Hemisphere, Northern Europe, the North-West of England, England and Wales, UK postcode area L, the G8, the true knowledge good local retailer coverage area, US postal Group 5, the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands, the British time region, Africa-Eurasia, Eurasia, Merseyside
Wikipedia Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway
Gender: male
Nationality: british, english
Residence: the United States, Liverpool, Princeton University
Educated: Cambridge University; Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Expert of, Inventor of: the game of life
Last Name: "Conway"
First Name: "John"
Employer: Princeton University
Main Occupation: mathematician
Doctoral Students: Richard Borcherds, Simon P. Norton
Doctoral Advisor: Harold Davenport
Class: ▶
person, atheist, scientist, mathematician, Capricorn person, …
resident, academic, award winner
Academic Grandchildren: Beth Holmes
Religion: atheist
Born During: 1930s
Attributes: atheist, male, english
Aquaintance: Simon Lane
Freebase ID: "/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000002030a"
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http://www.math.princeton.edu/WebCV/ConwayBIB.pdf, http://www.adeptis.ru/vinci/m_part3_3.html, http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~doyle/docs/conway/conway, http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~jas/one/freewill-theorem.html], http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0000FFD8-61FF-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21&catID=2, …
http://www.users.cloud9.net/~cgseife/conway.html
DBPedia URI: http://dbpedia.org/resource/John_Horton_Conway
Middle-name: "Horton"
Birthday: the 26th of December
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Conway biography

John Conway's parents were Agnes Boyce and Cyril Horton Conway. John had two older sisters, Sylvia and Joan. ... Perhaps the surprising fact is that Conway was not trying to develop ...

http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Conway.html

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Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John Horton Conway, Richard K. Guy. Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays ... This wonderful book is crammed with fascinating facts and properties about ...

http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/bib/nf/c/conway.htm

The Book of Numbers - John Horton Conway, Richard K. Guy - Google ...

This unique book brings together facts, pictures and stories about numbers in a way ... By John Horton Conway and Richard K. Guy. Springer-Verlag, 1996, 320, $29.95.

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John Conway

John Conway. John Horton Conway (born December 26, 1937, Liverpool, England) is a prolific mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, ...

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