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... 33 KB (3,386 words) - 00:24, 3 March 2024 |
points lie is called the Conway circle of the triangle. The theorem and circle are named after mathematician John Horton Conway. Let I be the center of... 6 KB (506 words) - 09:54, 16 April 2024 |
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... 16 KB (1,551 words) - 10:42, 27 April 2024 |
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... 34 KB (4,480 words) - 04:40, 17 April 2024 |
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... 75 KB (11,406 words) - 10:29, 11 April 2024 |
mathematician John Horton Conway (1937–2020). Conway algebra – an algebraic structure introduced by Paweł Traczyk and Józef H. Przytycki Conway base 13 function... 6 KB (613 words) - 19:53, 26 May 2022 |
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... 3 KB (363 words) - 17:48, 15 July 2022 |
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... 9 KB (1,305 words) - 20:58, 10 June 2023 |
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... 3 KB (282 words) - 23:54, 1 December 2023 |
Free will theorem (redirect from Conway free will) The free will theorem of John H. Conway and Simon B. Kochen states that if we have a free will in the sense that our choices are not a function of the... 7 KB (878 words) - 05:06, 13 February 2024 |
Angel problem (category John Horton Conway) angel problem is a question in combinatorial game theory proposed by John Horton Conway. The game is commonly referred to as the angels and devils game. The... 15 KB (2,406 words) - 19:12, 4 April 2024 |
edge, and vertex-transitive. It is one of 28 uniform honeycombs. John Horton Conway calls this honeycomb a truncated octahedrille in his Architectonic... 14 KB (871 words) - 23:33, 20 January 2023 |
sporadic groups and was discovered by John Horton Conway in 1968. It is the largest of the three sporadic Conway groups and can be obtained as the quotient... 9 KB (924 words) - 00:03, 26 August 2021 |
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... 2 KB (244 words) - 01:25, 31 October 2023 |
Phutball (category John Horton Conway) two-player abstract strategy board game described in Elwyn Berlekamp, John Horton Conway, and Richard K. Guy's Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays. Phutball... 6 KB (714 words) - 13:32, 4 July 2023 |
In knot theory, Conway notation, invented by John Horton Conway, is a way of describing knots that makes many of their properties clear. It composes a... 3 KB (348 words) - 09:41, 19 November 2022 |
studies. The Conway knot was named after its discoverer, English mathematician John Horton Conway, who first wrote about the knot in 1970. The Conway knot was... 11 KB (1,096 words) - 09:59, 7 April 2024 |
In geometry and topology, Conway polyhedron notation, invented by John Horton Conway and promoted by George W. Hart, is used to describe polyhedra based... 46 KB (2,672 words) - 00:45, 19 March 2024 |
Doomsday rule (category John Horton Conway) calculation John Horton Conway, "Tomorrow is the Day After Doomsday" (PDF). Eureka. October 1973. p. 28-32. Richard Guy, John Horton Conway, Elwyn Berlekamp :... 41 KB (3,627 words) - 04:15, 18 April 2024 |
On Numbers and Games (category John Horton Conway) On Numbers and Games is a mathematics book by John Horton Conway first published in 1976. The book is written by a pre-eminent mathematician, and is directed... 8 KB (985 words) - 12:06, 31 March 2024 |
Tangle (mathematics) (category John Horton Conway) mathematics, a tangle is generally one of two related concepts: In John Conway's definition, an n-tangle is a proper embedding of the disjoint union... 8 KB (987 words) - 06:59, 10 April 2024 |
Sprouts (game) (category John Horton Conway) for its mathematical properties. It was invented by mathematicians John Horton Conway and Michael S. Paterson at Cambridge University in the early 1960s... 18 KB (2,459 words) - 03:59, 6 April 2024 |
Conway chained arrow notation, created by mathematician John Horton Conway, is a means of expressing certain extremely large numbers. It is simply a finite... 15 KB (3,044 words) - 04:47, 5 April 2024 |
Alexander polynomial (redirect from Alexander-Conway polynomial) knot polynomial, in 1923. In 1969, John Conway showed a version of this polynomial, now called the Alexander–Conway polynomial, could be computed using... 17 KB (2,590 words) - 07:08, 2 March 2024 |
Birmingham, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied under John Horton Conway. After receiving his doctorate in 1985, Borcherds has held various... 10 KB (765 words) - 06:05, 12 January 2024 |
Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays (category John Horton Conway) Your Mathematical Plays (Academic Press, 1982) by Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John H. Conway, and Richard K. Guy is a compendium of information on mathematical games... 3 KB (337 words) - 07:24, 5 May 2023 |