nationality birth_date residence alma_mater birth_name image_size doctoral_students image name birth_place field work_institutions thesis_url known_for doctoral_advisor thesis_year religion article_title prizes thesis_title
british 26 december 1937 united states gonville ma , phd -rrb- and caius college , cambridge -lrb- ba , john horton conway 250px richard borcherds simon norton robert wilson john h conway 2005 -lrb- cropped -rrb- . jpg john conway liverpool , lancashire , england , united kingdom mathematics princeton university http://ethos.bl.uk/orderdetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.597910 conway 's game of life look-and-say sequence harold davenport 1964 atheist john horton conway
 berwick pólya prize -lrb- 1987 -rrb- nemmers prize in mathematics -lrb- prize 1998 -rrb- leroy p. steele prize -lrb- 2000 -rrb- -lrb- 1971 -rrb- frs -lrb- 1981 -rrb- homogeneous ordered sets
john horton conway

john horton conway frs -lrb- ; born 26 december 1937 -rrb- is a british 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 .
he has an erdős number of 1 .
