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	John Horton Conway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Conway is currently professor of mathematics at Princeton University.
		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 (918 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - John Horton Conway - Mathematician
		Conway's first major published work was in 1968: a study of the symmetry group G of the Leech lattice, a 24-dimensional close packing of spheres.
		Conway invented a new way of defining numbers based purely on the concept of greater than and less than, which produced a superset of the real numbers.
		The Conway polynomial is formed by changing a knot into two simpler knots by a process of cutting and re-attaching at a particular crossing.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A2982468 (2122 words)

	Conway biography
		It was only after this kick-start to his publishing career that Conway "started doing real mathematics" having received a great boost to his confidence with one of the most remarkable discoveries in the area of mathematics which had the highest profile at that time.
		The name surreal numbers was not invented by Conway, however, but by Donald Knuth who was so impressed with Conway's discovery that he wrote Surreal Numbers (1974) in the form of a novelette aimed at introducing the ideas of mathematical research to students.
		In 1986 Conway left Cambridge after accepting appointment to the John von Neumann Chair of Mathematics at Princeton in the United States where much of his work has focused on geometry, in particular studying the symmetries of crystal lattices.
	www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /Biographies/Conway.html (1905 words)

	Conway, John Horton (1937-)
		Conway has been an extraordinarily fertile source of new ideas in mathematics and of mathematical games.
		In 1967 he found a cluster of three new sporadic groups, now sometimes called Conway's Constellation, building on an earlier discovery by John Leech of an extremely dense packing of unit spheres in a space of 24 dimensions.
		Among amateur mathematicians, Conway is best known as the inventor of the games of Life, Sprouts, and Phutball, as well as for his detailed analyses of many other games and puzzles, such as the Soma Cube.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/C/Conway.html (217 words)

	Games, Life and the Game of Life
		Conway's original aim was entirely mathematical - he was trying to find a so-called universal system, that is, a system capable of carrying out arbitrary computations - a sort of infinitely programmable computer.
		Conway describes the process von Neumann used to develop this complicated system thus: "If he wanted a certain ability, like the ability to transmit messages, he added a few more states and gave himself that ability.
		Although Conway believes that the Martians will also be interested in physics, as we share the same physical universe, the advantage of mathematics is that it does not require expensive equipment to make discoveries.
	plus.maths.org /issue20/features/conway (2082 words)

	John Conway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John B. Conway: mathematician, functional analyst, University of Tennessee
		John S. Conway: historian at the University of British Columbia
		This human name article is a disambiguation page – a list of pages that might otherwise share the same title, which is a person's or persons' name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Conway (101 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.cloud9.net /~cgseife/conway.html (4062 words)

	Amazon.com: On Numbers and Games: Books: John Horton Conway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		John Horton Conway is probably best known as the creator/discoverer of the computer game called "Life," with which he re-founded the entire field of cellular automata.
		Conway noticed that in the board game of Go, there were certain patterns in the endgames such that each "game" looked like it could be constructed out of smaller "games".
		Conway is the most original mathematician on the planet, as well as a remarkably witty and vivid writer, who combines wordplay and logic better than anyone since Lewis Carroll.
	www.amazon.com /Numbers-Games-John-Horton-Conway/dp/1568811276 (2192 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Sensual (Quadratic) Form: Livres en anglais: John Horton Conway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Conways opens with the topograph, a graph that represents all the integer values of a quadratic form in such a clever way, that virtually any reasonable question can be answered instantly just by thinking about the layout of the topograph.
		The distinguished mathematician John Conway presents quadratic forms 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.amazon.fr /Sensual-Quadratic-Form-Horton-Conway/dp/0883850303 (400 words)

	John Horton Conway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		John Horton Conway is John von Neumann Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University.
		He was born in 1937 in Liverpool, England, and received both his BA (1959) and his PhD (1964) from CambridgeUniversity.
		Conway is perhaps most popularly known for his GameOfLife, which is a simple simulation of cellular behavior giving rise to extremely complex results, including the creation of a TuringMachine.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?JohnHortonConway (197 words)

	John Conway - AOL Music
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	music.aol.com /artist/john-conway/696268/main (137 words)

	Powell's Books - The Book of Numbers by John Horton Conway
		Powell's Books - The Book of Numbers by John Horton Conway
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		Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John Horton Conway, Richard K. Guy.
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