2020年4月25日 星期六

John Horton Conway FRS (26 December 1937 – 11 April 2020)

Mathematician John Horton Conway, a ‘magical genius’ known for inventing the ‘Game of Life,’ dies at age 82

April 14, 2020 10:15 a.m.




Wikipedia
John Horton Conway FRS (26 December 1937 – 11 April 2020) was an English mathematician active in the theory of finite groupsknot theorynumber theorycombinatorial game theory and coding theory. He also made contributions to many branches of recreational mathematics, most notably the invention of the cellular automaton called the Game of Life.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Conway spent the first half of his career at the University of Cambridge before moving to the United States, where he held the John von Neumann Professorship at Princeton University for the rest of his career.[2][3][4][5][6][7] On 11 April 2020, at age 82, he died of complications from COVID-19.[8]

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