Richard K. Guy

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human mathematician recreational mathematician

Richard K. Guy was a British-Canadian mathematician renowned for his work in number theory, combinatorics, and recreational mathematics, and for coauthoring influential books that popularized mathematical games and puzzles.

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human → mathematician → recreational mathematician →
awardReceived	Chauvenet Prize → Euler Book Prize → Lester R. Ford Award →
coAuthor	Elwyn R. Berlekamp → John H. Conway → John L. Selfridge → Paul Erdős → Richard J. Lewis → Richard J. Nowakowski → Richard J. Wilson →
countryOfBirth	United Kingdom →
countryOfCitizenship	Canada → United Kingdom →
countryOfDeath	Canada →
educatedAt	Cambridge University NERFINISHED →
employer	University of Calgary →
familyName	Guy →
fieldOfWork	combinatorial game theory → combinatorics → graph theory → number theory → recreational mathematics →
genre	mathematical recreation literature → popular mathematics →
givenName	Richard →
hasWrittenOn	combinatorial games → graph coloring problems → unsolved problems in mathematics →
influencedBy	Paul Erdős →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
memberOf	Canadian Mathematical Society → Mathematical Association of America →
name	Richard K. Guy →
notableFor	contributions to combinatorial game theory → popularizing mathematical games and puzzles → research on unsolved problems in number theory →
notableIdea	Guy’s conjecture in number theory → research on the game of life and cellular automata →
notableWork	The Book of Numbers → Unsolved Problems in Number Theory → Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays →
occupation	mathematician →
placeOfBirth	Nuneaton →
placeOfDeath	Calgary →
sexOrGender	male →
workLocation	Calgary →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Elwyn R. Berlekamp → John H. Conway →	coAuthor
Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays →	author
Richard K. Guy →	name