John Horton Conway FRS (26 December 1937 – 11 April 2020) was an English mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory...
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known simply 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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