John Horton Conway

John Horton Conway FRS^[2] (26 December 1937 – 11 April 2020) was an English mathematician. He is known for his theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory.

John H. Conway
Born	John Horton Conway (1937-12-26)26 December 1937[1] Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Died	11 April 2020(2020-04-11) (aged 82) New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD)
Known for	Surreal numbers Conway groups Monstrous moonshine Doomsday algorithm Look-and-say sequence Icosians Mathieu groupoid Free will theorem Conway chained arrow notation Conway criterion Conway notation (knot theory) Conway polyhedron notation ATLAS of Finite Groups Conway's Game of Life
Awards	Berwick Prize (1971) Fellow of the Royal Society (1981)[2] Pólya Prize (1987) Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (1998) Leroy P. Steele Prize (2000)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Princeton University
Thesis	Homogeneous ordered sets (1964)
Doctoral advisor	Harold Davenport[3]
Doctoral students	Richard Borcherds[3] Simon Norton[3] Robert Wilson[3] Leonard Hyman Soicher[3]
Website	math.princeton.edu/directory/john-conway

He also worked in many branches of recreational mathematics, mainly for the invention of the cellular automaton called the Game of Life.

Conway was a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University in New Jersey.^{[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]}

Conway died of COVID-19 on 11 April 2020 in New Brunswick, New Jersey at the age of 82.^[11] He was diagnosed with the infection three days before his death.^[11]