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    Richard Kenneth Guy (30 September 1916 – 9 March 2020) was a British mathematician. He was a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University...
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  • Richard K. Guy (1916–2020) was a British mathematician. Richard Guy may also refer to: Richard Guy (footballer) (1880–1938), English footballer Richard...
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  • John Horton Conway, and is the son of Conway's collaborator Richard K. Guy. With Conway, Guy found the complete solution to the Soma cube of Piet Hein....
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    turn inspired by him. Berlekamp teamed up with John Horton Conway and Richard K. Guy, two other close associates of Gardner, to co-author the book Winning...
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  • small numbers" is the humorous law that proclaims, in the words of Richard K. Guy (1988): There aren't enough small numbers to meet the many demands made...
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    across the board in Conway's Game of Life. It was first discovered by Richard K. Guy in 1969, while John Conway's group was attempting to track the evolution...
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  • number, equal to 1 with a googol zeros after it. John Horton Conway and Richard K. Guy have suggested that N-plex be used as a name for 10N. This gives rise...
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  • strong law of small numbers, an observation made by the mathematician Richard K. Guy: "There aren't enough small numbers to meet the many demands made of...
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  • Plays (Academic Press, 1982) by Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John H. Conway, and Richard K. Guy is a compendium of information on mathematical games. It was first published...
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    Mathematical Monthly. 79 (7): 774. doi:10.2307/2316276. JSTOR 2316276. Richard K. Guy (2004). Unsolved Problems in Number Theory. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-20860-7...
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    Retrieved 6 November 2019. Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John Horton Conway, Richard K. Guy. "Winning ways for your mathematical plays, Volume 3", A K Peters (2003)...
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  • P_{n+1}^{2}-P_{n}^{2},P_{n+1}^{2}+P_{n}^{2}=P_{2n+1}\right)} . John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy, The Book of Numbers. New York: Copernicus (1996): 11. ""Score" is related...
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    strategy board game described in Elwyn Berlekamp, John Horton Conway, and Richard K. Guy's Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays. Phutball is played on the...
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    pp. 308–339. 1982 – Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays (with Richard K. Guy and Elwyn Berlekamp). Academic Press, ISBN 0120911507. 1985 – Atlas...
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    Nim (section Index-k nim)
    John Horton; Guy, Richard K. (2003-06-15). vol. 2. ISBN 978-1-56881-142-0.; Berlekamp, Elwyn R.; Conway, John Horton; Guy, Richard K. (2003-06-15)....
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  • Richard K. Guy (1916–2020), British mathematician Rosa Guy (1925–2012), American writer Scott Guy (died 2010), New Zealand murder victim Thomas Guy (1644–1724)...
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  • Book of Numbers (math book), 1996 math book by John Horton Conway and Richard K. Guy Telephone directory, a book of phone numbers Numbers (disambiguation)...
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  • arXiv:0908.4407 [math.CO]. Bibliography Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John Conway and Richard K. Guy, Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays, 1992. Sprouts for Spring...
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  • ISBN 0-19-869173-4 Oxford English Dictionary Berlekamp, Elwyn R.; John H. Conway; Richard K. Guy (1982). Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays. Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-091102-7...
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  • Nonaliquot numbers, Publ. Math. Debrecen 78:2 (2011), pp. 439-442. Richard K. Guy, Unsolved Problems in Number Theory (3rd ed), Springer Verlag, 2004...
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    Issue 2, (1981), pp 183–208. Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy, "Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays", 2nd Edition, Volume 4,...
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    Later, Singmaster reported that Elwyn Berlekamp, John Conway, and Richard K. Guy had come up with a different algorithm that took at most 160 moves....
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    frequently fall asleep during them. According to a story by number theorist Richard K. Guy, the department head at the time, after Mordell had fallen asleep, someone...
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    Persi Diaconis M. C. Escher Solomon W. Golomb Bill Gosper Ronald Graham Richard K. Guy Frank Harary Piet Hein Douglas Hofstadter Ray Hyman Scott Kim David...
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  • Sequences. OEIS Foundation. Retrieved 2022-11-25. John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy, The Book of Numbers. New York: Copernicus (1996): 11. "Carl Friedrich...
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  • 2\|23\|=22} . Mahler, K.; Popken, J. (1953), "On a maximum problem in arithmetic", Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, 1: 1–15, MR 0053986. Guy, Richard K. (1986), "Some...
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    just pay-offs. In the 1960s, Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy jointly introduced the theory of a partisan game, in which the requirement...
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  • Uncertainty. Section: C; Page 1. (Note: this is a widely cited article). Richard K. Guy: "The Strong Law of Small Numbers". American Mathematical Monthly, vol...
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    Andrew Granville Peter M. Gruber Branko Grünbaum Hansraj Gupta Richard K. Guy Michael Guy András Gyárfás András Hajnal Gábor Halász Haim Hanani Frank Harary...
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    constructions, like the heptagon, are constructible; and John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy give constructions for several of them. The neusis construction is more...
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