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− | {{About|the British mathematician John H. Conway |the American mathematician| John B. Conway|other people named John Conway|John Conway (disambiguation){{!}}John Conway}}
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| + | '''John Horton Conway''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS}}<ref name="royal">{{Cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/john-conway-11257/|title=John Conway|last=|first=|date=|website=The Royal Society|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=April 11, 2020}}</ref> (born 26 December 1937<!-- DEATH HAS NOT BEEN CONFIRMED YET BY A RELIABLE SOURCE -->) is an English mathematician active in the theory of [[finite group]]s, [[knot theory]], [[number theory]], [[combinatorial game theory]] and [[coding theory]]. He has also made contributions to many branches of [[recreational mathematics]], most notably the invention of the [[cellular automaton]] called the [[Conway's Game of Life|Game of Life]]. Conway spent the first half of his long career at the [[University of Cambridge]] in England, and the second half at [[Princeton University]] in New Jersey, where he holds the title [[John von Neumann]] Professor Emeritus.<ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1080/10586458.1996.10504585| title = Packing Lines, Planes, etc.: Packings in Grassmannian Spaces| journal = Experimental Mathematics| volume = 5| issue = 2| pages = 139| year = 1996| last1 = Conway | first1 = J. H. | last2 = Hardin | first2 = R. H. | last3 = Sloane | first3 = N. J. A. | arxiv = math/0208004}}</ref><ref name="scopus">{{Scopus|id=7402605312}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1109/18.59931| title = A new upper bound on the minimal distance of self-dual codes| journal = IEEE Transactions on Information Theory| volume = 36| issue = 6| pages = 1319| year = 1990| last1 = Conway | first1 = J. H. | last2 = Sloane | first2 = N. J. A. }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1016/0097-3165(93)90070-O| title = Self-dual codes over the integers modulo 4| journal = Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A| volume = 62| pages = 30–45| year = 1993| last1 = Conway | first1 = J. H. | last2 = Sloane | first2 = N. J. A. }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1109/TIT.1982.1056484| title = Fast quantizing and decoding and algorithms for lattice quantizers and codes| journal = IEEE Transactions on Information Theory| volume = 28| issue = 2| pages = 227| year = 1982| last1 = Conway | first1 = J.| last2 = Sloane | first2 = N.| url = http://neilsloane.com/doc/Me83.pdf| citeseerx = 10.1.1.392.249}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1016/0097-3165(90)90057-4| title = Tiling with polyominoes and combinatorial group theory| journal = Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A| volume = 53| issue = 2| pages = 183| year = 1990| last1 = Conway | first1 = J. H. | last2 = Lagarias | first2 = J. C. }}</ref><ref name=mactutor>MacTutor History of Mathematics archive: [https://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Conway.html John Horton Conway]</ref> |
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| + | ''' 约翰·霍顿·康威 John Horton Conway '''<ref name="royal">{{Cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/john-conway-11257/|title=John Conway|last=|first=|date=|website=The Royal Society|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=April 11, 2020}}</ref>(生于1937年12月26日,<!-死因尚未得到可靠来源的证实->)是一位活跃于'''有限群 finite groups'''理论的英国数学家,'''纽结理论 knot theory,'''数论 number theory''','''组合博弈论 combinatorial game theory'''和'''编码论 coding theory'''。 他还为'''趣味数学 recreational mathematics'''的许多分支做出了贡献,其中最著名的是[[元胞自动机 Cellular Automata]]的发明,[[康威的生命游戏|生命游戏]]。 康威(Conway)先是在英国剑桥大学度过他一半的职业生涯,而在新泽西'''普林斯顿大学'''的新泽西州度过了下半场职业生涯,他获得了'''John von Neumann'''荣誉教授的头衔。 .<ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1080/10586458.1996.10504585| title = Packing Lines, Planes, etc.: Packings in Grassmannian Spaces| journal = Experimental Mathematics| volume = 5| issue = 2| pages = 139| year = 1996| last1 = Conway | first1 = J. H. | last2 = Hardin | first2 = R. H. | last3 = Sloane | first3 = N. J. A. | arxiv = math/0208004}}</ref><ref name="scopus">{{Scopus|id=7402605312}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1109/18.59931| title = A new upper bound on the minimal distance of self-dual codes| journal = IEEE Transactions on Information Theory| volume = 36| issue = 6| pages = 1319| year = 1990| last1 = Conway | first1 = J. H. | last2 = Sloane | first2 = N. J. A. }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1016/0097-3165(93)90070-O| title = Self-dual codes over the integers modulo 4| journal = Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A| volume = 62| pages = 30–45| year = 1993| last1 = Conway | first1 = J. H. | last2 = Sloane | first2 = N. J. A. }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1109/TIT.1982.1056484| title = Fast quantizing and decoding and algorithms for lattice quantizers and codes| journal = IEEE Transactions on Information Theory| volume = 28| issue = 2| pages = 227| year = 1982| last1 = Conway | first1 = J.| last2 = Sloane | first2 = N.| url = http://neilsloane.com/doc/Me83.pdf| citeseerx = 10.1.1.392.249}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1016/0097-3165(90)90057-4| title = Tiling with polyominoes and combinatorial group theory| journal = Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A| volume = 53| issue = 2| pages = 183| year = 1990| last1 = Conway | first1 = J. H. | last2 = Lagarias | first2 = J. C. }}</ref><ref name=mactutor>MacTutor History of Mathematics archive: [https://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Conway.html John Horton Conway]</ref> |
− | | name = John H. Conway
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− | | image = John H Conway 2005 (cropped).jpg | |
− | | birth_name = John Horton Conway | |
− | | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1937|12|26}} | |
− | | birth_place = [[Liverpool]], England | |
− | | death_date = <!-- DEATH HAS NOT BEEN CONFIRMED YET BY A RELIABLE SOURCE -->
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− | | residence = Princeton, New Jersey
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− | | nationality = British
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− | | alma_mater = [[Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge]] (BA, MA, PhD)
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− | | thesis_title = Homogeneous ordered sets | |
− | | thesis_url = http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.597910 | |
− | | thesis_year = 1964 | |
− | | doctoral_advisor = [[Harold Davenport]]<ref name="mathgene">{{MathGenealogy|id=18849}}</ref>
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− | * [[Richard Borcherds]]<ref name="mathgene"/>
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− | * [[Adrian Mathias]]<ref name="mathgene"/>
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− | * [[Simon P. Norton|Simon Norton]]<ref name="mathgene"/>
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− | * [[Robert Arnott Wilson|Robert Wilson]]<ref name="mathgene"/>}}
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− | * [[Surreal numbers]]
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− | * [[Conway groups]]
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− | * [[Monstrous moonshine]]
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− | * [[Doomsday algorithm]]
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− | * [[Look-and-say sequence]]
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− | * [[Icosians]]
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− | * [[Mathieu groupoid]]
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− | * [[Free will theorem]]
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− | * [[Conway chained arrow notation]]
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− | * [[Conway criterion]]
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− | * [[Conway notation (knot theory)]]
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− | * [[Conway polyhedron notation]]
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− | * ''[[ATLAS of Finite Groups]]''
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− | * [[Conway's Game of Life]]}}
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− | | website = {{URL|math.princeton.edu/directory/john-conway}} | |
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− | | field = [[Mathematics]] | |
− | | work_institutions = [[Princeton University]] | |
− | | prizes = {{Plainlist| | |
− | * [[Berwick Prize]] (1971)
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− | * [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] (1981)<ref name=royal/>
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− | * [[Pólya Prize (LMS)|Pólya Prize]] (1987)
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− | * [[Nemmers Prize in Mathematics]] (1998)
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− | * [[Leroy P. Steele Prize]] (2000)}}
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− | '''John Horton Conway''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS}}<ref name="royal">{{Cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/john-conway-11257/|title=John Conway|last=|first=|date=|website=The Royal Society|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=April 11, 2020}}</ref> (born 26 December 1937<!-- DEATH HAS NOT BEEN CONFIRMED YET BY A RELIABLE SOURCE -->) is an English mathematician active in the theory of [[finite group]]s, [[knot theory]], [[number theory]], [[combinatorial game theory]] and [[coding theory]]. He has also made contributions to many branches of [[recreational mathematics]], most notably the invention of the [[cellular automaton]] called the [[Conway's Game of Life|Game of Life]]. Conway spent the first half of his long career at the [[University of Cambridge]] in England, and the second half at [[Princeton University]] in New Jersey, where he holds the title [[John von Neumann]] Professor Emeritus.<ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1080/10586458.1996.10504585| title = Packing Lines, Planes, etc.: Packings in Grassmannian Spaces| journal = Experimental Mathematics| volume = 5| issue = 2| pages = 139| year = 1996| last1 = Conway | first1 = J. H. | last2 = Hardin | first2 = R. H. | last3 = Sloane | first3 = N. J. A. | arxiv = math/0208004}}</ref><ref name="scopus">{{Scopus|id=7402605312}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1109/18.59931| title = A new upper bound on the minimal distance of self-dual codes| journal = IEEE Transactions on Information Theory| volume = 36| issue = 6| pages = 1319| year = 1990| last1 = Conway | first1 = J. H. | last2 = Sloane | first2 = N. J. A. }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1016/0097-3165(93)90070-O| title = Self-dual codes over the integers modulo 4| journal = Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A| volume = 62| pages = 30–45| year = 1993| last1 = Conway | first1 = J. H. | last2 = Sloane | first2 = N. J. A. }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1109/TIT.1982.1056484| title = Fast quantizing and decoding and algorithms for lattice quantizers and codes| journal = IEEE Transactions on Information Theory| volume = 28| issue = 2| pages = 227| year = 1982| last1 = Conway | first1 = J.| last2 = Sloane | first2 = N.| url = http://neilsloane.com/doc/Me83.pdf| citeseerx = 10.1.1.392.249}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1016/0097-3165(90)90057-4| title = Tiling with polyominoes and combinatorial group theory| journal = Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A| volume = 53| issue = 2| pages = 183| year = 1990| last1 = Conway | first1 = J. H. | last2 = Lagarias | first2 = J. C. }}</ref><ref name=mactutor>MacTutor History of Mathematics archive: [https://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Conway.html John Horton Conway]</ref>
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