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Last updated on December 18, 2024.

John B. Conway

John Bligh Conway is an American mathematician. He is currently a professor emeritus at the George Washington University. His specialty is functional analysis, particularly bounded operators on a Hilbert space.

American - Mathematician | Born: 1939

Source: Wikipedia

To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about a collection of examples and the purpose of proving theorems is to classify and explain the examples.

John B. Conway

John B. Conway

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