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To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about a collection of examples and the purpose of proving theorems is to classify and explain the examples...

John B. Conway

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John B. Conway

John B. Conway

Born: September 22, 1939 (age 86)
Bio: John Bligh Conway is an American mathematician. He is currently a professor emeritus at the George Washington University. His specialty is functional analysis, particularly bounded operators on a Hilbert space.
Known for:
  1. Functions of one complex variable (1973)
  2. A Course in Functional Analysis (1990)
  3. A course in operator theory (2000)
  4. A Course in Point Set Topology (2013)

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