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John Horton Conway was born on Dec. 26, 1937, in Liverpool, England, the third child and only son of Cyril and Agnes (Boyce) Conway. His father, an autodidact, ...
The legendary mathematician John Horton Conway, who died in April of COVID-19, took a childlike delight in inventing puzzles and games.He performed detailed analyses of many puzzles, such as the Soma ...
Half a century ago, a brilliant young mathematician named John Horton Conway discovered, of all things, a knot. This wasn’t the sort of knot that you’d be likely to encounter in the real world. You ...
Like many of us, [John Whittington] was saddened with the news that John Horton Conway passed away a little earlier this year, and in honor of his work, he added the Game of Life to a flip-dot disp… ...
On Saturday April 11th, 2020 its inventor and namesake, John Horton Conway passed away from COVID-19 at the age of 82. Born in Liverpool, Conway received his PhD in mathematics in 1964 from ...
John Horton Conway, 82, a Princeton University mathematician died on Saturday, April 11, in New Brunswick from complications related to COVID-19. Denise Applewhite, Princeton Office of Communications.
Half a century ago, a brilliant young mathematician named John Horton Conway discovered, of all things, a knot. This wasn’t the sort of knot that you’d be likely to encounter in the real world. You ...
John Horton Conway was born Dec 26, 1937, in Liverpool, England, the third child and only son of Cyril and Agnes (Boyce) Conway. His father, an autodidact, had left school at age 14 and, with his ...
John Horton Conway, an English-born Princeton mathematician whose body of work ranged from the rigorously highbrow to the frivolously fun, earning him prizes and a reputation as a creative ...