John Horton Conway
John Horton Conway FRS (født 26. december 1937, død 11. april 2020) var en engelsk matematiker, der forskede i teori om endelige grupper, knudeteori, talteori, kombinatorisk spilteori og kodeteori. Han bidrog også til mange grene af rekreationel matematik, hvor opfindelsen af cellulær automat-spillet Game of Life nok er mest berømt.
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John Horton Conway i 2005. 2005 | |
| Personlig information | |
| Født |
26. december 1937  Liverpool, Storbritannien |
| Død |
11. april 2020 (82 år) New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA |
| Dødsårsag |
COVID-19 |
| Nationalitet |
 Engelsk |
| Bopæl |
New Brunswick |
| Far |
Cyril Horton Conway |
| Mor |
Agnes Boyce |
| Uddannelse og virke | |
| Uddannelsessted |
University of Cambridge (til 1962) |
| Medlem af |
Royal Society (fra 1981), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (fra 1992) |
| Beskæftigelse |
Universitetsunderviser, matematiker |
| Fagområde |
Talteori, kombinatorisk spilleteori, matematiske spil, matematik, spilteori med flere |
| Arbejdsgiver |
Princeton Universitet (1987-2013), University of Cambridge (1962-1987) |
| Elever |
E. Randol Schoenberg |
| Kendte værker |
Conway-konstant, Conway kriterium, Conway kædet pilenotation, Game of Life, Conway polyedernotation med flere |
| Nomineringer og priser | |
| Udmærkelser |
Fellow of the Royal Society (1981), Pólya Prize (1987), Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition (2000), Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (1998), Berwick-pris (1971) |
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Conway blev født og opvoksede i Liverpool. Han tilbragte den første halvdel af sin karriere på University of Cambridge før han flyttede til USA, hvor han havde et John von Neumann-professorat på Princeton University resten af sin karriere.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Han døde den 1. april 2020 i en alder af 82 år efter komplikationer med COVID-19.[7]
Publikationer redigér
- 1971 – Regular algebra and finite machines. Chapman and Hall, London, 1971, Series: Chapman and Hall mathematics series, ISBN 0412106205.
- 1976 – On numbers and games. Academic Press, New York, 1976, Series: L.M.S. monographs, 6, ISBN 0121863506.
- 1979 – On the Distribution of Values of Angles Determined by Coplanar Points (with Paul Erdős, Michael Guy, and H. T. Croft). Journal of the London Mathematical Society, vol. II, series 19, pp. 137–143.
- 1979 – Monstrous Moonshine (with Simon P. Norton).[8] Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, vol. 11, issue 2, pp. 308–339.
- 1982 – Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays (with Richard K. Guy and Elwyn Berlekamp). Academic Press, ISBN 0120911507.
- 1985 – Atlas of finite groups (with Robert Turner Curtis, Simon Phillips Norton, Richard A. Parker, and Robert Arnott Wilson). Clarendon Press, New York, Oxford University Press, 1985, ISBN 0198531990.
- 1988 – Sphere Packings, Lattices, and Groups[9] (with Neil Sloane). Springer-Verlag, New York, Series: Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, 290, ISBN 9780387966175.
- 1995 – Minimal-Energy Clusters of Hard Spheres (with Neil Sloane, R. H. Hardin, and Tom Duff). Discrete & Computational Geometry, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 237–259.
- 1996 – The Book of Numbers (with Richard K. Guy). Copernicus, New York, 1996, ISBN 0614971667.
- 1997 – The Sensual (quadratic) Form (with Francis Yein Chei Fung). Mathematical Association of America, Washington, DC, 1997, Series: Carus mathematical monographs, no. 26, ISBN 1614440255.
- 2002 – On Quaternions and Octonions (with Derek A. Smith). A. K. Peters, Natick, MA, 2002, ISBN 1568811349.
- 2008 – The Symmetries of Things (with Heidi Burgiel and Chaim Goodman-Strauss). A. K. Peters, Wellesley, MA, 2008, ISBN 1568812205.
Referencer redigér
- ^ Conway, J. H.; Hardin, R. H.; Sloane, N. J. A. (1996). "Packing Lines, Planes, etc.: Packings in Grassmannian Spaces". Experimental Mathematics. 5 (2): 139. arXiv:math/0208004. doi:10.1080/10586458.1996.10504585.
- ^ Conway, J. H.; Sloane, N. J. A. (1990). "A new upper bound on the minimal distance of self-dual codes". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 36 (6): 1319. doi:10.1109/18.59931.
- ^ Conway, J. H.; Sloane, N. J. A. (1993). "Self-dual codes over the integers modulo 4". Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A. 62: 30-45. doi:10.1016/0097-3165(93)90070-O.
- ^ Conway, J.; Sloane, N. (1982). "Fast quantizing and decoding and algorithms for lattice quantizers and codes" (PDF). IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 28 (2): 227. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.392.249. doi:10.1109/TIT.1982.1056484.
- ^ Conway, J. H.; Lagarias, J. C. (1990). "Tiling with polyominoes and combinatorial group theory". Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A. 53 (2): 183. doi:10.1016/0097-3165(90)90057-4.
- ^ MacTutor History of Mathematics archive: John Horton Conway
- ^ Bellos, Alex (20. april 2020). "Can you solve it? John Horton Conway, playful maths genius". The Guardian. London, United Kingdom. ISSN 0261-3077. Hentet 2020-04-20.
- ^ Conway, J. H.; Norton, S. P. (1. oktober 1979). "Monstrous Moonshine". Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. 11 (3): 308-339. doi:10.1112/blms/11.3.308 – via academic.oup.com.
- ^ Guy, Richard K. (1989). "Review: Sphere packings, lattices and groups, by J. H. Conway and N. J. A. Sloane" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (N.S.). 21 (1): 142-147. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1989-15795-9.