University of Cambridge (at time of Conway’s work in combinatorial games)

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The University of Cambridge is a historic and prestigious British research university renowned for its contributions to mathematics and theoretical computer science, including the environment in which John Conway developed his work on combinatorial games.

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instanceOf collegiate university
public research university
affiliatedWith Cambridge University Press & Assessment
chancellor The Lord Sainsbury of Turville
country United Kingdom
employed John Horton Conway
linked to: John H. Conway
fieldOfResearch combinatorics
game theory
logic
number theory
theoretical computer science
foundedIn 1209
governingBody Regent House
hasAcademicStaff over 6,000
hasAcademicUnit Computer Laboratory
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
Faculty of Computer Science and Technology
Faculty of Mathematics
hasCampusType urban
hasCollege Christ's College, Cambridge
Churchill College, Cambridge
Clare College, Cambridge
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Darwin College, Cambridge
Downing College, Cambridge
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Girton College, Cambridge
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Homerton College, Cambridge
Hughes Hall, Cambridge
Jesus College, Cambridge
King's College, Cambridge
Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge
Magdalene College, Cambridge
Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
Newnham College, Cambridge
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Peterhouse, Cambridge
Queens' College, Cambridge
Robinson College, Cambridge
Selwyn College, Cambridge
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
St Catharine's College, Cambridge
St John's College, Cambridge
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Wolfson College, Cambridge
hasLibrarySystem Cambridge University Library
hasMotto Hinc lucem et pocula sacra
hasNotableComputerScientist Gordon Plotkin
Robin Milner
Tony Hoare
hasNotableMathematician Alan Turing
G. H. Hardy
John Horton Conway
linked to: John H. Conway

Srinivasa Ramanujan
hasPress Cambridge University Press
hasStudentEnrollment over 20,000
hasTypeOfInstitution non-profit
knownFor combinatorial game theory
mathematics
physics
theoretical computer science
languageOfInstruction English
locatedIn Cambridge, England
memberOf International Alliance of Research Universities
League of European Research Universities
Russell Group
notableWorkEnvironmentFor development of combinatorial game theory by John Horton Conway
viceChancellor Deborah Prentice

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Conway’s soldiers creatorAffiliation University of Cambridge (at time of Conway’s work in combinatorial games)