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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.

John Horton Conway

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John Horton Conway

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Born: December 26, 1937
Died: April 11, 2020 (aged 82)
Bio: John Horton Conway was an English mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory.
Known for:
  1. On Numbers and Games (1976)
  2. The book of numbers (1996)
  3. ATLAS of Finite Groups (1998)
  4. Sphere packings, lattices, and groups (1988)
  5. On Quaternions and Octonions (2003)

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