Accomplishment

John Conway has many accomplishments in the multiple fields of mathematics. While he is most known for creating the "Game of Life" he also garnered numerous awards. In 1959, John Conway solved the mathematical problem proposed by Harold Davenport about writing numbers as the sum of fifth powers. During The Mid 1960s, he suggested a system of notation dedicated to describing polyhedral called Conway Polyhedral notation. Because of his tremendous contribution to Pure Mathematics, Combinatorial Game Theory, Number Theory, Geometry and Algebra, John Conway was recognized as a mathematical genius, earning himself recognition and a multitude of awards in mathematics, including the Berwick prize by the London Mathematical Society in 1971. Ten years later he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and 6 years later he received the Pólya Prize. In 1992, he became a fellow of the American Academy of arts and science and won the Nemmers prize in Mathematics 6 years after that. 2 years later in 2000 he received the Leroy P. Steele prize for mathematical Exposition and the American Mathematical Society the year later. in 2001 he awarded an honorary degree from the university of Liverpool and another degree in 2014 from Alexandu loan Cuza university. Throughout his career he became known as the most charismatic mathematician in the world.

Besides his accomplishments and awards in pure mathematics, he was more interested in game theory and created a number of games, including: Conway's Game of Life, Sprouts, Philosopher's Football and Conway's Soldiers. In addition to the games he invented he also analyzed many games and puzzles. In his analysis of the game "Go" he realized that nearing the end of the game the board would develop into smaller games and this led to his discovery of Surreal Numbers. Analyzing our calendar he also created 'the Doomsday Rule', which is used to determine the day of the week for any given date provided you know the day of the week that the last day of February falls on in that given year.