Sir John H. Conway

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
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gptkbp:award gptkb:Lester_R._Ford_Award
gptkb:Berwick_Prize
gptkb:Nemmers_Prize_in_Mathematics
gptkbp:birthDate 1937-12-26
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Liverpool,_England
gptkbp:causeOfDeath gptkb:COVID-19
gptkbp:children 7
gptkbp:deathDate 2020-04-11
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:New_Brunswick,_New_Jersey,_USA
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Harold_Davenport
gptkbp:editor gptkb:The_Mathematical_Intelligencer
gptkbp:employer gptkb:Princeton_University
gptkb:University_of_Cambridge
gptkbp:field gptkb:mathematics
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:John_Horton_Conway
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Sir John H. Conway
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Elwyn_Berlekamp
gptkb:Richard_K._Guy
gptkb:Noam_Elkies
gptkb:Simon_P._Norton
Mathematical community
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Paul_Erdős
gptkb:Harold_Davenport
gptkb:John_Leech
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gptkb:Conway's_constant
gptkb:Conway's_soldiers
gptkb:Conway_group
gptkb:Conway_notation
gptkb:Conway_polynomial
gptkb:Game_of_Life
gptkb:Look-and-say_sequence
gptkb:Sprouts_(game)
gptkb:Surreal_numbers
gptkb:Knot_theory
gptkb:Creature
Combinatorial game theory
Cellular automata
Mathematical games
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:American_Mathematical_Society
gptkb:Royal_Society
gptkbp:nationality British
gptkbp:publishedWork gptkb:Winning_Ways_for_your_Mathematical_Plays
gptkb:On_Numbers_and_Games
gptkb:Sphere_Packings,_Lattices_and_Groups
gptkb:The_Book_of_Numbers
gptkbp:signature John H. Conway signature.svg
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Diana_Conway
gptkb:Eileen_Conway
gptkbp:title gptkb:professor
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