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John Horton Conway
English mathematician (1937–2020) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 (1937-12-26)26 December 1937[1] Liverpool, Lancashire, England |
Died | 11 April 2020(2020-04-11) (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 |
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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]