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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
John Horton Conway
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:
- On Numbers and Games (1976)
- The book of numbers (1996)
- ATLAS of Finite Groups (1998)
- Sphere packings, lattices, and groups (1988)
- On Quaternions and Octonions (2003)