John H. Conway

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British mathematician human mathematician

John H. Conway was a British mathematician renowned for his work in group theory, number theory, and recreational mathematics, including the invention of the cellular automaton "Game of Life."

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	British mathematician ⓘ human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ
academicDegree	PhD in mathematics ⓘ
almaMater	Cambridge University ⓘ surface form: University of Cambridge
awardReceived	Berwick Prize ⓘ Pólya Prize (LMS) ⓘ
causeOfDeath	COVID-19 ⓘ
coAuthor	Elwyn R. Berlekamp ⓘ Richard K. Guy ⓘ
countryOfBirth	United Kingdom ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United Kingdom ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1937-12-26 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	2020-04-11 ⓘ
doctoralAdvisor	Harold Davenport ⓘ
educatedAt	Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge ⓘ
employer	Princeton University ⓘ Cambridge University ⓘ surface form: University of Cambridge
familyName	Conway ⓘ
fieldOfWork	coding theory ⓘ combinatorial game theory ⓘ geometry ⓘ group theory ⓘ knot theory ⓘ mathematics ⓘ number theory ⓘ recreational mathematics ⓘ
genre	mathematical games ⓘ
givenName	John ⓘ
hasInfluenced	cellular automata research ⓘ recreational mathematics community ⓘ
knownFor	inventing the Game of Life ⓘ popularizing recreational mathematics ⓘ work in combinatorial game theory ⓘ work in finite simple groups ⓘ
languageSpoken	English ⓘ
memberOf	Royal Society ⓘ
middleName	Horton ⓘ
notableWork	Conway groups ⓘ Conway notation for knots ⓘ Conway polynomial ⓘ Conway’s Game of Sprouts ⓘ Conway’s topograph ⓘ Game of Life ⓘ Look-and-say sequence ⓘ Monster group construction (with collaborators) ⓘ On Numbers and Games ⓘ Surreal numbers ⓘ Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Liverpool ⓘ
placeOfDeath	New Brunswick, New Jersey ⓘ
positionHeld	John von Neumann Professor in Applied and Computational Mathematics ⓘ Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ

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