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John Horton Conway

1937 - 2020

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John Horton Conway (26 December 1937 – 11 April 2020) was an English mathematician. He was active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Horton Conway has received more than 1,708,685 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). John Horton Conway is the 264th most popular mathematician (down from 214th in 2019), the 1,285th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,041st in 2019) and the 25th most popular British Mathematician.

Conway is most famous for his Game of Life, a cellular automaton that he invented in 1970.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, John Horton Conway ranks 264 out of 1,004. Before him are Guo Shoujing, Andreas Osiander, Hans Hahn, Adolf Hurwitz, Thomas Simpson, and Emil Artin. After him are Jesse Douglas, Tatyana Afanasyeva, John Wilkins, Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov, Carl David Tolmé Runge, and Atle Selberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, John Horton Conway ranks 101. Before him are Ronald Venetiaan, Neeme Järvi, Keizō Obuchi, Francis Veber, Jean-Pierre Beltoise, and Shirley Bassey. After him are Kōichirō Matsuura, Baden Powell, Vittorio Brambilla, Tom Simpson, Anna Hazare, and Eugen Doga. Among people deceased in 2020, John Horton Conway ranks 113. Before him are Miloš Jakeš, Agne Simonsson, Michel Hidalgo, Claude Brasseur, Pascal Lissouba, and Mory Kanté. After him are David Prowse, Bill Withers, Jack Charlton, Benjamin Mkapa, Daniel arap Moi, and George Floyd.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Horton Conway ranks 1,285 out of 8,785. Before him are Shirley Bassey (1937), Thomas Gresham (1519), Edward Lear (1812), Mary Leakey (1913), Alexander I of Scotland (1078), and Barbara Cartland (1901). After him are Clive Owen (1964), Martin Frobisher (1535), Julian Glover (1935), Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773), Albert Hammond (1944), and Branwell Brontë (1817).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, John Horton Conway ranks 25. Before him are James Gregory (1638), Michael Atiyah (1929), Henry Briggs (1561), Johannes de Sacrobosco (1195), Robert Recorde (1512), and Thomas Simpson (1710). After him are John Wilkins (1614), George Atwood (1745), Edward Waring (1736), John Edensor Littlewood (1885), William George Horner (1786), and Alan Baker (1939).

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