For other people named John Conway, see John Conway (disambiguation).
John Horton Conway
FRS
Conway in June 2005
Born
(1937-12-26)26 December 1937
Liverpool, England
Died
11 April 2020(2020-04-11) (aged 82)
New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.
Education
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD)
Known for
ATLAS of Finite Groups
Conway chained arrow notation
Conway criterion
Conway groups
Conway notation (knot theory)
Conway polyhedron notation
Conway's Game of Life
Doomsday algorithm
Free will theorem
Icosians
Look-and-say sequence
Mathieu groupoid
Monstrous moonshine
Pinwheel tiling
Surreal numbers
Awards
Berwick Prize (1971)
Fellow of the Royal Society (1981)
Pólya Prize (1987)
Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (1998)
Leroy P. Steele Prize (2000)
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematics
Institutions
University of Cambridge Princeton University
Thesis
Homogeneous ordered sets(1964)
Doctoral advisor
Harold Davenport[1]
Doctoral students
Richard Borcherds[1]
Adrian Mathias[1]
Simon Norton[1]
Robert Wilson[1]
Website
Archived version @ web.archive.org
John Horton ConwayFRS (26 December 1937 – 11 April 2020) was an English mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory. He also made contributions to many branches of recreational mathematics, most notably the invention of the cellular automaton called the Game of Life.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Conway spent the first half of his career at the University of Cambridge before moving to the United States, where he held the John von Neumann Professorship at Princeton University for the rest of his career.[2] On 11 April 2020, at age 82, he died of complications from COVID-19.[3]
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^J J O'Connor and E F Robertson (2004). "John Conway – Biography". MacTutor History of Mathematics. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
^"COVID-19 Kills Renowned Princeton Mathematician, 'Game Of Life' Inventor John Conway In 3 Days". Mercer Daily Voice. 12 April 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
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