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John Horton Conway is a British mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory. He has also contributed to many branches of recreational mathematics, notably the invention of the cellular automaton called the Game of Life.
Conway is currently Professor of Mathematics and John Von Neumann Professor in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University. He has also begun lecturing at CUNY's Queens College. He studied at Cambridge, where he started research under Harold Davenport. He received the Berwick Prize, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, was the first recipient of the Pólya Prize, won the Nemmers Prize in Mathematics and received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition of the American Mathematical Society. He has an Erdős number of one.
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