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	Wonders of Math - The Game of Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		John Conway is a professor of Finite Mathematics at Princeton University.
		Conway, who is fond of making puns, called this kind of object a "still life." You can observe several of these objects by running the R-pentomino in the applet.
		Conway's prize was collected soon after its announcement, when two different ways were discovered for designing a pattern that grows forever.
	www.math.com /students/wonders/life/life.html (2713 words)

	John Horton Conway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Conway is currently professor of mathematics at Princeton University.
		John's young years were difficult for he grew up in Britain at a time of wartime shortages.
		Conway's approach to computing the Alexander polynomial of knot theory, in a variant now called the Alexander-Conway polynomial, involved a skein relation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Horton_Conway (938 words)

	John Conway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		John Horton Conway (born December 26, 1937, Liverpool, England) is a prolific mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory.
		He invented a new number system, the surreal numbers, which are closely related to certain games and have been the subject of a mathematical novel by Donald Knuth.
		Conway is professor of mathematics at Princeton University.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/j/jo/john_conway.html (208 words)

	Henry Robertson Conway
		John Conway grandfather of Doctor Conway, was born in Kentucky in 1826, the family having in the meantime moved across the Alleghenies from Virginia to that state.
		John H. Conway, father of Doctor Conway, was born at Cynthiana, Kentucky, in 1848.
		Henry Robertson Conway was educated in the public schools of Marshall, Missouri, and in 1903 graduated from the Central High School of Kansas City, Missouri.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1919ks/c/conwayhr.html (690 words)

	John Conway and Elizabeth Bridgewater and descendents
		Joseph CONWAY (that moved VA to KY to MO) can be found in quite a lot of papers: "Heritage of the Creve Coeur Area" is a book that covers the general history of Creve Coeur, published for the nations Bicentennial by the City of Creve Coeur.
		In 1780, Joseph Conway was wounded and scalped by an Indian and taken to Detroit as a prisoner.
		John Conway and Joseph Conway Soldiers in Actual Service Meat from the 10th day of March 1780 till the 24th day of June being 107 days and likewise Meat from the 10th day of April till the 24th day of June being 76 days Each-- James Trabue Coms.
	frontierfolk.org /conway-j.htm (2962 words)

	Ivars Peterson's MathLand
		John H. Conway, then at Cambridge University, was trying to understand how to play Go, an immensely challenging board game popular in China and Japan.
		Conway applied the same logic to other games of strategy, including checkers and dominoes, and he came to the conclusion that certain types of games appear to behave like numbers with distinctive properties.
		Conway's insight led him to define a new family of numbers constructed out of mathematical sets related to sequences of binary choices.
	www.maa.org /mathland/mathland_3_18.html (1176 words)

	John Conway - Monday 25 September 2000 - Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta
		John H. Conway is von Neumann Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, and recipient of the 1998 Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics.
		He is one of the preeminent theorists in the study of finite groups (the mathematical abstraction of symmetry) and one of the world's foremost knot theorists.
		Conway was educated at Cambridge University and served as a professor of mathematics there prior to joining Princeton in 1986.
	www.cs.ualberta.ca /events/dls/2000-2001/Conway.php (295 words)

	Groundbreaking Mathematician Takes on The Question at Tech April 9
		Conway is the author of numerous articles and books.
		Conway simplified the model, and it became the now famous game of Life.
		Conway showed the game of Life to his friend Martin Gardner, the longtime author of Scientific American's Mathematical Games column.
	www.gatech.edu /news-room/archive/news_releases/conwaymath.html (488 words)

	Math Trek: Punctured Polyhedra, Science News Online, June 17, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Several years ago, mathematician John H. Conway of Princeton University wondered whether a polyhedron could have such a polygonal hole passing through each and every face and remain a polyhedron.
		Conway's specifications exclude polyhedra in which a hole's sides extend all the way to a pierced face's edges.
		Conway had offered a reward of $10,000—divided by the number of faces—for finding a holyhedron, so Vinson's initial effort netted him a minuscule return.
	www.sciencenews.org /20000617/mathtrek.asp (674 words)

	Charles Seife: Impressions of Conway
		I don't remember what could have sparked such interest." Conway was at the top of the class in almost everything, until he reached high school, when it ceased.
		Conway, what we have here is a poor Ph.D. thesis." Though the comment annoyed Conway at first, he realized that it meant that he was free to do whatever he liked.
		In fifteen years, Conway and his colleagues collected all the "interesting" groups, classified them, described their properties, and put them into one volume.
	www.users.cloud9.net /~cgseife/conway.html (4062 words)

	Hilbert's Hotel: Polyhedra and Conway's Notation
		This introduces a code by John H. Conway, author of "Numbers and Games" and of numerous neat mathematical things.
		Conway introduces about 12 operators or so, and 8 objects on which to operate.
		Presumably Hart has a formula for producing an image of these polyhedra and figuring out where the points on them go, and this might not be easy; for example, the pentakis dodecahedron is made up of somewhat irregular triangles.
	jimvb.home.mindspring.com /2005/08/polyhedra-and-conways-notation.html (543 words)

	Sullivan Retrospect
		John Conway conceived the column for the Times Herald-Record newspaper in July of 1987.
		John Conway has been the Sullivan County (NY) Historian since 1993.
		He was born and raised in Monticello, NY, educated at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, and has been in the vanguard of the movement to chronicle and preserve local history for over 25 years.
	www.towerwebsites.com /retrospect (295 words)

	G4 - Feature - John Conway's Game of Life
		Conway's game is a simple mathematical exercise with potentially broad applications in the fields of science and technology.
		Conway's discovery single-handedly launched the field of cellular automata, the study of systems in which simple rules are applied to create complex results.
		By starting with the simplest system, such as Conway's game of "Life," scientists and mathematicians can begin to build a framework for isolating and modeling the seemingly random patterns of nature.
	www.g4tv.com /techtvvault/features/37424/John_Conways_Game_of_Life.html (444 words)

	Conway, John Horton (1937-) -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography
		Conway was educated at the University of Cambridge, and taught at Cambridge as a mathematical logician upon graduation.
		At Princeton, he is currently John von Neumann Distinguished Professor of Mathematics), and remains an honorary fellow of Gonville and Caius College.
		Conway is the author or co-author of at least ten books, and of many expository articles which have had substantial impact not just on research mathematicians but on mathematical amateurs as well.
	scienceworld.wolfram.com /biography/Conway.html (251 words)

	Mathematical Recreations
		Conway proved that in Life there are configurations that form universal Turing machines--programmable computers.
		Call a cell an H cell if it is entered horizontally and a V cell if it is entered vertically.
		The H and V cells tile the grid like the fl and white squares of a checkerboard.
	www.fortunecity.com /emachines/e11/86/langton.html (2196 words)

	Dickinson College - Joseph Priestley Celebration
		The recipient is given an honorarium and a ceramic medallion struck from an original 1779 mold by Josiah Wedgwood which bears a likeness of Priestley derived from a pen-and-ink drawing by John Flaxman.
		1965 Joel H. Hildebrand, for research in the fields of solubility and the structure of liquids.
		2001 John H. Conway for distinguished contributions to the field of applied and computational mathematics.
	www.dickinson.edu /news/priestley (769 words)

	On Quaternions and Octonions, by John Conway and Derek Smith
		On Quaternions and Octonions, by John Conway and Derek Smith
		Conway and Smith explore a lesser-known aspect of the geometry of numbers by applying it to subrings of the quaternions and octonions.
		Conway and Smith then study prime factorization in the Cayley integers.
	math.ucr.edu /home/baez/octonions/conway_smith (4511 words)

	Conway, John Henry
		Conway John Henry Conway, 94 of Adairsville Rte.
		Conway was born June 18, 1884 in Bartow County, son of the late Samuel Conway and Mary Carnes Conway.
		Mildred C. Black and Marcella Conway, both of Adairsville; three sons, William B. Conway, Arnold E. Conway and Joseph H. Conway,all of Adairsville; four grandchildren and four great- grandchildren.
	www.gabartow.org /obits/obit.Conway.shtml (290 words)

	Amazon.com: The Book of Numbers: Books: John H. Conway,Richard Guy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Conway and Guy start this book with an enticing survey of how numbers pervade the English language, showing the hidden (or not-so-hidden) numerical roots of common words.
		I have met one of the authors, Dr. John Conway, at Princeton University.
		Conway was consulted by my Father, Robert Jackson, of Jackson's Difference Fans,(a 1937 Princeton alumnus -Chemical Engineering with Honors).
	www.amazon.com /Book-Numbers-John-H-Conway/dp/038797993X (1840 words)

	John Conway's home page
		Fix a bounded open set $G$ in the complex plane and let $H$ be the Hilbert space of all analytic functions on $G$ that are square integrable with respect to area measure on $G$.
		Define $S:H\rightarrow H$ by $(Sf)(z)=zf(z)$ for all $f$ in $H$.
		See J B Conway and B B Morrel, ``Roots and logarithms of bounded operators on a Hilbert space,'' {\sl J Funct Anal} {\bf 70} (1987) 171--193.
	www.math.utk.edu /~conway (860 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Book of Numbers: Books: John H. Conway,Richard Guy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Conway and Guy present a fascinating look at what the human intellect can achieve in the realm of abstract thought.
		The coverage is wide: primes, reals, Cayley numbers, Eisenstein numbers, polygonal numbers, catalan numbers, Stirling numbers of both types and of course Bell numbers.
		There are the cardinals and ordinals of Cantor as well as Conway's own surreal numbers.
	www.amazon.ca /Book-Numbers-John-H-Conway/dp/038797993X (1162 words)

	The John von Neumann Lecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This prize, established in 1959, is in the form of an honorarium for an invited lecture called The John von Neumann Lecture.
		It may be awarded to a mathematician or to a scientist in another field, but in either case, the recipient should be one who has made distinguished contributions to pure and/or applied mathematics.
		The surreal numbers are a fascinatingly rich system discovered by John H. Conway a couple of decades ago but not yet widely appreciated.
	www.siam.org /meetings/archives/an94/jvn.htm (420 words)

	Speaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Conway, one of the preeminent theorists in the study of finite groups (the mathematical abstraction of symmetry) and one of the world's foremost knot theorists, is the author of more than 10 books and more than 130 journal articles on a wide variety of mathematical subjects.
		Beyond the academic world Conway is widely known as the inventor of the "Game of Life", a computer simulation of simple cellular "life," governed by remarkably simple rules which give rise to amazingly complex behavior.
		Conway may well have the distinction of having more books, articles and Web
	www.wpunj.edu /cos/math/MATHFAIR/mf1998/conway.htm (239 words)

	Lake Norman and Charlotte area real estate agents Marie and John Conway
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	www.thelakepeople.com (269 words)

	About "Profile (John H. Conway): Not Just Fun and Games" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		...over the past three decades Conway has made some of his greatest contributions to mathematical theory by analyzing simple puzzles...
		Conway's useful work spans the gamut of mathematical disciplines, ranging from theorems about knots and sphere packing to the discovery of a whole new class of numbers - the aptly named surreal numbers.
		The Math Forum is a research and educational enterprise of the Drexel School of Education.
	mathforum.org /library/view/8474.html (117 words)

	Darwin College: 17th Annual Lecture Series 2002: John Conway
		John H. Conway is von Neumann Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University.
		Beyond the academic world Conway is widely known as the inventor of the "Game of Life".
		He may well have the distinction of having more books, articles and Web pages devoted to his creations than any other living mathematician.
	www.dar.cam.ac.uk /lectures/2002/JohnConway.html (186 words)

	The Power of Mathematics (abstract) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		John H Conway (edited by David J C MacKay)
		This is a lecture about the power of simple ideas in mathematics.
		All postscript files are compressed with gzip - see this page for advice about gzip, if needed.
	www.cs.toronto.edu /~mackay/abstracts/conway.html (126 words)

	Games that interest John Conway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		John Conway says in the preface to this book that he wrote it to tell about the realationships between two of his favorite subjects: theories of transfinite numbers and mathematical games.
		Many of us have used logic and numbers to explain how to win a game, but mathematician Conway was not about to do something so ordinary.
		If you play these games enough, you will be come so completely clever at them that you can always have a strategy that will win (as long as you don't play them with someone who is quite as clever about them as you are.)
	www.cs.uidaho.edu /~casey931/conway/games.html (170 words)

	john h conway - ResearchIndex document query (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Quaquaversal Tilings And Rotations By John H. Conway 1 And Charles Radin 2 1 Department
		Trigonometric Functions Are Rational By John H. Conway 1 Charles Radin 2 And Lorenzo Sadun
		The name mutation was suggested by John H. Conway, who has been using it, mainly in connection
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /cis?q=John+H.+Conway (400 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 97074335
		Publisher description for The sensual (quadratic) form / John H. Conway ; assisted by Francis Y.C. Fung.
		Quadratic forms are here presented, by the distinguished mathematician John Conway, in a pictorial way that enables the reader to understand them mathematically without proving theorems in the traditional fashion.
		In his customary enthusiastic style, Conway uses his theme to cast light on all manner of mathematical topics from algebra, number theory and geometry, including many new ideas and features.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/cam029/97074335.html (118 words)

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