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John Horton Conway

British mathematician who invented the Game of Life.

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English mathematician (1937–2020)

Born	1937
Died	2020

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Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, Volume 2

by Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John Horton Conway, and Richard K. Guy First published in 1986 — 9 editions

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Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, Volume 1

by Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John Horton Conway, and Richard K. Guy First published in 1985 — 8 editions

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Regular Algebra and Finite Machines

by John Horton Conway First published in 1971 — 8 editions

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Book of Numbers

by John Horton Conway and Richard K. Guy First published in 1995 — 8 editions

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Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, Volume 3

by Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John Horton Conway, and Richard K. Guy First published in 1997 — 8 editions

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Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, Volume 4

by Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John Horton Conway, and Richard K. Guy First published in 2004 — 7 editions

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Sphere packings, lattices, and groups

by John Horton Conway and Neil J. A. Sloane
First published in 1988 — 6 editions

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On quaternions and octonions: their geometry, arithmetic, and symmetry

by John Horton Conway and Derek A. Smith First published in 2003 — 6 editions

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On numbers and games

by John Horton Conway First published in 1976 — 6 editions

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The Symmetries of Things

by John Horton Conway, Heidi Burgiel, and Chaim Goodman-Strauss First published in 2008 — 4 editions

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The sensual (quadratic) form

by John Horton Conway First published in 1997 — 3 editions

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The Triangle Book

by John Horton Conway and Steve Sigur First published in 2005 — 2 editions

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Winning ways for your mathematical plays: Volume 1: Games in General

by Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John Horton Conway, and Richard K. Guy First published in 1982 — 2 editions

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Atlas of Finite Groups: Maximal Subgroups and Ordinary Characters for Simple Groups

by John Horton Conway First published in 1985 — 2 editions

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Combinatorial Games

by Richard K. Guy, Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John Horton Conway, Aviezri S. Fraenkel, Richard J. Nowakowski, and Vera Pless First published in 1991 — 2 editions
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Winning ways for your mathematical plays: Volume 2: Games in Particular

by Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John Horton Conway, and Richard K. Guy First published in 1982 — 2 editions

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Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups

by John Horton Conway, Neil J. A. Sloane, E. Bannai, R. E. Borcherds, and J. Leech First published in 2013 — 1 edition

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Winning ways for your mathematical plays: Composite Scan

by Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John Horton Conway, and Richard K. Guy First published in 2001 — 1 edition

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M24 and Other Sporadic Groups

by John Horton Conway 1 edition

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Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays

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English mathematician (1937–2020)

Born	1937
Died	2020

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OLID: OL229299A
GoodReads: 132175
ISNI: 0000000120188504
Library of Congress Names: n82119161
MusicBrainz: 407d39b6-477f-4d71-8bc8-dcb14eabbe12
SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): RMSV001271
VIAF: 108718238
Wikidata: Q268961
Inventaire.io: wd:Q268961

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