John Horton Conway

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John Horton Conway

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John Horton Conway {{#invoke:InfoboxImage|InfoboxImage|image=John H Conway 2005 (cropped). jpg|size=250px|sizedefault=frameless|alt=|suppressplaceholder=yes}}Born (1937-12-26) 26 December 1937 (age?75)Liverpool, Merseyside, EnglandResidence United StatesNationality BritishFields MathematicianInstitutions Princeton UniversityAlma mater University of CambridgeThesis Homogeneous ordered sets (1964)Doctoral advisor Harold DavenportDoctoral students Richard Borcherds Robert WilsonKnown?for Game of life, Look-and-say sequenceNotable awards Berwick Prize (1971), Polya Prize (1987), Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (1998), Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition (2000) John Horton Conway (born 26 December 1937) is a British mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory. He has also contributed to many branches of recreational mathematics, notably the invention of the cellular automaton called the Game of Life. Conway is currently Professor of Mathematics and John Von Neumann Professor in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University. He studied at Cambridge, where he started research under Harold Davenport. He received the Berwick Prize (1971), was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (1981), was the first recipient of the P?lya Prize (LMS) (1987), won the Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (1998) and received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition (2000) of the American Mathematical Society. He has an Erdos number of one.

Fecha de nacimiento 1937-12-26