Richard K. Guy

Richard Kenneth Guy ( born September 30, 1916 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire ) is a British mathematician, he is professor emeritus at the University of Calgary.

Life

Guy studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge, served as a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force and was used in the meteorological service in the Air Ministry. From 1941 to 1949 he was a high school teacher at Goldsmiths College and then taught at the University of Malaya. From 1956 he was a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi. From 1962 he was professor of mathematics at the University of Calgary. In 1972 he took Canadian citizenship.

Mathematician

To the attention of a wider public he fell primarily as the author of three books: Unsolved Problems in Number Theory and Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays ( with John Horton Conway and Elwyn Berlekamp ) and The Book of Numbers ( number of spells) ( with John Horton Conway ). In addition, he has published over 200 scientific articles and books on topics combinatorial game theory, number theory and graph theory.

He discovered the 19 areas currently the smallest on only a single stable stationary base polyhedron. In Conway's Game of Life he discovered the Glider.

Chess composition

Chess players is Guy known for its approximately 200 studies to playoffs and the Miterfinderschaft the GBR codes. For the British Chess Magazine from 1947 to 1951 he was the editor in charge playoffs.

Solution: 1 Ke1 -d1 Ka4 -a3 2 Kd1 -c1 a6- a5 3 h3 - h4 a5 -a4 4 h4 - h5 Ka3 -a2 5 h5- h6 a4 -a3 6 h6 - h7 Ka2 -a1 7 h7 - H8S underpromotion a3 -a2 8 Sh8 - g6 f7xg6 9 f6 f7 - g6 - g5 10 f7 - F8S underpromotion g5 - g4 11 Sf8 - e6 d7xe6 12 d6 d7 e6 - e5 13 d7 - e5 -e4 D8S underpromotion 14 SD8- c6 b7xc6 15 b6 b7 - c6 - c5 16 Kc 1 -d1 -b2 Ka1 17 b7 - b8D wins

Works

  • Unsolved Problems in Number Theory. , 1994, ISBN 0-387-94289-0.
  • By John Conway, Elwyn Berlekamp: Win, Braunschweig, 1985/86, 4 volumes, ISBN 3528085312, ISBN 3528085320, ISBN 3528085339, ISBN 3528085347 ( engl. Original:. Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays, 2 volumes, ISBN 0120911019, ISBN 0120911027 ).
  • By John Conway: Number Spell - natural, imaginary and other figures, Birkhauser Verlag 1997, ISBN 3764352442 (English original: The Book of Numbers, New York 1996, ISBN 038797993X ).
  • With Hallard Croft, Kenneth J. Falconer Unsolved problems in geometry, Springer Verlag 1994
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