John Horton Conway Quotes

John Horton Conway FRS is an English 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 Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University in New Jersey.

✵ 26. December 1937
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John Horton Conway Quotes

“When I was on the train from Liverpool to Cambridge to become a student, it occurred to me that no one at Cambridge knew I was painfully shy, so I could become an extrovert instead of an introvert.”

[Mark Ronan, Symmetry and the Monster: One of the greatest quests of mathematics, http://books.google.com/books?id=wDjD0PowhIwC&pg=PT163, 18 May 2006, Oxford University Press, UK, 978-0-19-157938-7, 163]

“... I have said for twenty-five or thirty years that the one thing I would really like to know before I die is why the monster group exists.”

[Life, Death and the Monster - Numberphile, 9 May 2014, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOCe5HUObD4]

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