Quote of the day
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
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)