John Horton Conway

John Horton Conway

male, 71 years old
Cellular automatists, cellular automaton, Magic squares, board game, Conway's GameofLife, the game of life…Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, combinatorial game theory, Fellow of the Royal Society, game theorist, University of Cambridge
John Horton Conway (born December 26, 1937, Liverpool, England) is a prolific mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory,...
Bill Gosper

Bill Gosper

male
Cellular automatists, Symbolics, MIT AI Lab, Conway's GameofLife, lisp, Macsyma…Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Game of Life
Ralph William Gosper, Jr., (b. 1943) known as Bill Gosper, is an American mathematician and programmer from Pennsauken, New Jersey. Along with...
Noam Elkies

Noam Elkies

male, 43 years old (New York, New York, United States)
Harvard University, composer, National Puzzlers' League, NOM, still life, Jewish person…Conway's GameofLife, Euler's sum of powers conjecture, Department of Mathematics, Professor of Mathematics
Noam D. Elkies (born 1966 in New York City) is a mathematician. While an undergraduate at Columbia University, he was a three-time Putnam Fellow....
Alexander Dewdney

Alexander Dewdney

male, 68 years old
mathematician, From London, Ontario, recreational mathematics, September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks, Alexander Keewatin Dewdney, Conway's GameofLife…University of Western Ontario
Alexander Keewatin Dewdney (born August 5 1941 in London, Ontario) is a Canadian mathematician, computer scientist and philosopher who has written...
Mary Ann Horton

Mary Ann Horton

female
Cellular automatists, B News, Bigender, bi-gendered, UNIVAC 1108, Mark R. Horton…Conway's GameofLife
Mary Ann Horton, formerly Mark R. Horton, was a Usenet pioneer. Horton co-wrote the B News server software. In the early 1970's, Horton designed...