John Horton Conway

<p>John Horton Conway <a href="/facts/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society/cWs8TdC5">FRS</a> (26 December 1937 – 11 April 2020) was an English mathematician. He was active in the theory of <a href="/facts/Finite_group/vv2tvogB">finite groups</a>, <a href="/facts/Knot_theory/mb7rtqVP">knot theory</a>, <a href="/facts/Number_theory/zhoa7zrc">number theory</a>, <a href="/facts/Combinatorial_game_theory/fF4l0om2">combinatorial game theory</a> and <a href="/facts/Coding_theory/SBqStoGL">coding theory</a>. He also made contributions to many branches of <a href="/facts/Recreational_mathematics/p2b8zl2J">recreational mathematics</a>, most notably the invention of the <a href="/facts/Cellular_automaton/6gfkjKAW">cellular automaton</a> called the <a href="/facts/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life/ofHgJmmb">Game of Life</a>.
</p><p>Born and raised in <a href="/facts/Liverpool/kTqATlxg">Liverpool</a>, Conway spent the first half of his career at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Cambridge/0la7aX9o">University of Cambridge</a> before moving to the United States, where he held the <a href="/facts/John_von_Neumann/aUk6urof">John von Neumann</a> Professorship at <a href="/facts/Princeton_University/n3EPGHBM">Princeton University</a> for the rest of his career. On 11 April 2020, at age 82, he died of complications from <a href="/facts/COVID-19/YsUgvsaX">COVID-19</a>.
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John Horton Conway