John Horton Conway FRS (26 December 1937 – 11 April 2020) was an English mathematician. He was active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number...
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also known as Conway's Game of Life or simply Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. It is a...
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particular in knot theory, the Conway knot (or Conway's knot) is a particular knot with 11 crossings, named after John Horton Conway. It is related by mutation...
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theory first proposed over fifty years prior by English mathematician John Horton Conway. From 2020-2024, she was an assistant professor of mathematics at...
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Look-and-say sequence (redirect from Conway's constant)
Curious Mind of John Horton Conway. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-62040-593-2. Look-and-Say Numbers (feat John Conway) - Numberphile on YouTube Conway Sequence, MathWorld...
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Monstrous moonshine (redirect from Conway-Norton conjecture)
The initial numerical observation was made by John McKay in 1978, and the phrase was coined by John Conway and Simon P. Norton in 1979. The monstrous moonshine...
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Conway's LUX method for magic squares is an algorithm by John Horton Conway for creating magic squares of order 4n+2, where n is a natural number. Start...
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Hackenbush (category John Horton Conway)
Hackenbush is a two-player game invented by mathematician John Horton Conway. It may be played on any configuration of colored line segments connected...
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4004 Conway, a variant of the Centurion tank Conway's Game of Life, a two-dimensional cellular automaton John Horton Conway, creator of Conway's Game...
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Surreal number (redirect from Conway numbers)
Research on the Go endgame by John Horton Conway led to the original definition and construction of surreal numbers. Conway's construction was introduced...
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Phutball (category John Horton Conway)
two-player abstract strategy board game described in Elwyn Berlekamp, John Horton Conway, and Richard K. Guy's Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays. Phutball...
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Free will theorem (redirect from Conway free will)
The free will theorem of John H. Conway and Simon B. Kochen states that if we have a free will in the sense that our choices are not a function of the...
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John Horton Conway (1937–2020) was an English mathematician at Princeton University, known for Conway's Game of Life. John Conway may also refer to: John...
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mathematician John Horton Conway (1937–2020). Conway algebra – an algebraic structure introduced by Paweł Traczyk and Józef H. Przytycki Conway base 13 function...
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sporadic groups and was discovered by John Horton Conway in 1968. It is the largest of the three sporadic Conway groups and can be obtained as the quotient...
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In geometry and topology, Conway polyhedron notation, invented by John Horton Conway and promoted by George W. Hart, is used to describe polyhedra based...
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Angel problem (category John Horton Conway)
angel problem is a question in combinatorial game theory proposed by John Horton Conway. The game is commonly referred to as the angels and devils game. The...
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Conway chained arrow notation, created by mathematician John Horton Conway, is a means of expressing certain extremely large numbers. It is simply a finite...
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In knot theory, Conway notation, invented by John Horton Conway, is a way of describing knots that makes many of their properties clear. It composes a...
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On Numbers and Games (category John Horton Conway)
On Numbers and Games is a mathematics book by John Horton Conway first published in 1976. The book is written by a pre-eminent mathematician, and is directed...
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p. 97. Thomas Thompson, pp. 148–152. Conway & Sloane (1999), p. 291 Griess (1998), p. 126 Conway, John Horton (1968), "A perfect group of order 8,315...
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Tangle (mathematics) (category John Horton Conway)
mathematics, a tangle is generally one of two related concepts: In John Conway's definition, an n-tangle is a proper embedding of the disjoint union...
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Birmingham, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied under John Horton Conway. After receiving his doctorate in 1985, Borcherds has held various...
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Doomsday rule (category John Horton Conway)
calculation John Horton Conway, "Tomorrow is the Day After Doomsday" (PDF). Eureka. October 1973. p. 28-32. Richard Guy, John Horton Conway, Elwyn Berlekamp :...
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Models, CUP (1983). John Horton Conway: Mathematical Magus - Richard K. Guy Curtis, Robert Turner (June 2022). "John Horton Conway. 26 December 1937—11...
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{Co} _{3}} is one of the 26 sporadic groups and was discovered by John Horton Conway (1968, 1969) as the group of automorphisms of the Leech lattice Λ...
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Alexander polynomial (redirect from Alexander-Conway polynomial)
knot polynomial, in 1923. In 1969, John Conway showed a version of this polynomial, now called the Alexander–Conway polynomial, could be computed using...
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Gardner and who were in turn inspired by him. Berlekamp teamed up with John Horton Conway and Richard K. Guy, two other close associates of Gardner, to co-author...
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Sprouts (game) (category John Horton Conway)
for its mathematical properties. It was invented by mathematicians John Horton Conway and Michael S. Paterson at Cambridge University in the early 1960s...
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record with a 1909-letter word describing the trpA protein (P0A877). John Horton Conway and Landon Curt Noll developed an open-ended system for naming powers...
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