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==Education and early life==

==教育和早期生活==

康威（Conway）生于'''Liverpool'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nndb.com/people/680/000082434/ |title=John Conway |publisher=www.nndb.com |accessdate=10 August 2010 }}</ref>，是西里尔·霍顿·康威和艾格尼丝·博伊斯的儿子。ref name="whoswho">{{cite web |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U11688 |title=CONWAY, Prof. John Horton |work=Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press }}{{subscription required}}</ref><ref name="mactutor" />他从很小的时候就对数学感兴趣。到11岁时，他的志向是成为一名数学家。

Conway was born in [[Liverpool]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nndb.com/people/680/000082434/ |title=John Conway |publisher=www.nndb.com |accessdate=10 August 2010 }}</ref> on 26 December 1937, the son of Cyril Horton Conway and Agnes Boyce.<ref name="whoswho">{{cite web |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U11688 |title=CONWAY, Prof. John Horton |work=Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press }}{{subscription required}}</ref><ref name="mactutor" /> He became interested in mathematics at a very early age. By the age of eleven his ambition was to become a mathematician.

After leaving sixth form, Conway entered [[Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge]]<ref name="whoswho"/> to study mathematics. Conway, who was a "terribly introverted adolescent" in school, interpreted his admission to Cambridge as an opportunity to transform himself into a new person: an "extrovert".<ref name=Guardian>{{cite news|last1=Roberts|first1=Siobhan|authorlink=Siobhan Roberts|title=John Horton Conway: the world's most charismatic mathematician|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/23/john-horton-conway-the-most-charismatic-mathematician-in-the-world|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=23 July 2015}}</ref><ref name="Ronan2006">{{cite book|author=Mark Ronan|title=Symmetry and the Monster: One of the greatest quests of mathematics|url=https://archive.org/details/symmetrymonstero0000rona|url-access=registration|date=18 May 2006|publisher=Oxford University Press, UK|isbn=978-0-19-157938-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/symmetrymonstero0000rona/page/163 163]|author-link=Mark Ronan}}</ref>

离开第六年级后，康威进入了'''剑桥的冈维尔和凯斯学院''' 来学习数学。<ref name="whoswho"/>康威（Conway）在学校时是一个“非常内向的青少年”，他将自己进入剑桥的机会解释为将自己转变为一个新人的机会：一个“外向的人”。<ref name=Guardian>{{cite news|last1=Roberts|first1=Siobhan|authorlink=Siobhan Roberts|title=John Horton Conway: the world's most charismatic mathematician|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/23/john-horton-conway-the-most-charismatic-mathematician-in-the-world|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=23 July 2015}}</ref><ref name="Ronan2006">{{cite book|author=Mark Ronan|title=Symmetry and the Monster: One of the greatest quests of mathematics|url=https://archive.org/details/symmetrymonstero0000rona|url-access=registration|date=18 May 2006|publisher=Oxford University Press, UK|isbn=978-0-19-157938-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/symmetrymonstero0000rona/page/163 163]|author-link=Mark Ronan}}</ref>

He was awarded his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1959 and began to undertake research in number theory supervised by [[Harold Davenport]]. Having solved the open problem posed by Davenport on [[Waring's problem|writing numbers as the sums of fifth powers]], Conway began to become interested in infinite ordinals. It appears that his interest in games began during his years studying the [[Cambridge Mathematical Tripos]], where he became an avid [[backgammon]] player, spending hours playing the game in the common room. He was awarded his doctorate in 1964 and was appointed as College Fellow and Lecturer in Mathematics at [[Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge]].

他于1959年获得文学学士学位，并在'''Harold Davenport'''的指导下开始进行数论研究。解决了达文波特对[[战争的问题的数字作为五次方的总和]]提出的开放问题，康威开始对无限序数感兴趣。似乎他对游戏的兴趣始于他研究'''Cambridge Mathematical Tripos'''的岁月，在那里他成为了一个狂热的'''西洋双陆棋 Backgammon'''玩家，花了数小时在休息室里玩游戏。他于1964年获得博士学位，并被'''Sidney Sussex College，Cambridge'''任命为大学研究员和数学讲师。

After leaving Cambridge in 1986, he took up the appointment to the [[John von Neumann]] Chair of Mathematics at Princeton University.

1986年离开剑桥后，他被任命为普林斯顿大学数学'''John von Neumann'''主席。

==Conway's Game of Life==

==Conway's Game of Life==