John Conway
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 25
Top works
- Cryptozoologicon
- Dutch Schultz and his lost Catskills' treasure
- The Path To Dictatorship 1918-1933
- Sudoku Primer
- Exploring the Functions of the Human Body , Energy Acquisition and Use : the Digestive System and Metabolism
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 101
- Total plays
- 260
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,169x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,509x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,302x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,187x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,819x
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Quotes
- “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.”
- “... I have said for twenty-five or thirty years that the one thing I would really like to know before I die is why the monster group exists."”
- “[I]n two dimensions the... [19 point] hexagonal lattice solves the packing, kissing, covering and quantizing problems. ...[T]his ...book is ...a search for similar nice patterns in higher dimensions.”
- “We are planning a sequel... The Geometry of Low-Dimensional Groups and Lattices which will contain two earlier papers...”
- “In this chapter we discuss the problem of packing spheres in and of packing points on the surface of a sphere. The problem is an important special case of the latter, and asks how many spheres can just touch another sphere of the same size.”
- “The classical... problem... asks: is this the greatest density..? an unsolved problem, one of the most famous...”
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Sports profile
- Sport
- Fighting
- Team
- _Retired Boxing
- Position
- Boxer
- Nationality
- New Zealand
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Wikidata facts
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- John Conway
- date of death
- 1909-08-22
- date of birth
- 1842-02-03
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Monty Noble
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Categories
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