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He proclaimed that in the future if she sees a John Conway without a bicycle around his neck, that he is not the real John Conway!
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The River Conway, the former English name of the River Conwy in North Wales.
The former English spelling of Conwy, a town in North Wales.
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The River Conway, the former English name of the River Conwy in North Wales.
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The former English spelling of Conwy, a town in North Wales.
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Example sentences
He proclaimed that in the future if she sees a John Conway without a bicycle around his neck, that he is not the real John Conway!
Did you mean John Conway or were you making a joke?
These were two separate areas of study that Conway had arrived at by two different paths.
A classmate had met Conway back at a summer math camp during High School.
The same can be said on the angel + seed stage side: Ron Conway has a name brand and the connections to go with it.
I took Math 217 (Honors Linear Algebra) [1] with John Conway back in undergrad.
John Conway had a real bicycle around his neck.
Turned out it was Conway and he'd recognised me from the maths common room, so figured I might be able to answer his questions.
My friend comes to the exam late, didn't hear about the closed notes update, takes the exam open notes (how did his neighbor not notice?), turns himself into Conway later.
Mapping physical effects of spin magnetism (magnetism or anti ferro magnetism) to 2 operations Refactoring Boolean equation to only those 2 (boolean algebrae rox) Building a kind of conway game of life cellular automata.
The maths department at my local University (Liverpool) organized meetings for kids from the surrounding region who were reasonably good at the subject, Conway came to one on a trip back to see his parents.
Quote examples
There's a chapter in "Making Software" about "Conway's Corollary" that makes the claim that distance in the hierarchy matters more than physical distance.
"It's no secret that Paul Graham secretly aspires to be Ron Conway by the way his eyes beam feverishly whenever interviewing him."
Finally, I don't recall if the papers themselves mention this but at least in speaking appearances Conway has said that he doesn't mean for people to read too much (or too little) into the word "Will", here.
If you would rather not locate "will" in these results, Conway is happy to concede that the theorems could as well be dubbed the "free whimsy" theorems...
Proper noun examples
Cambridge: computer algebra and John Conway's Game of Life on a PDP7.
They are, I can't find Damien Conway's talk from a few years ago, the whole thing seemed so clean and capable.
This is an extract from the new biography of Conway, Genius at Play, which I'd thoroughly recommend if you found this interesting.
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How do you use conway in a sentence?
He proclaimed that in the future if she sees a John Conway without a bicycle around his neck, that he is not the real John Conway!
What does conway mean?
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What part of speech is conway?
conway is commonly used as noun.