Richard K. Guy

Richard K. Guy
Born
Richard Kenneth Guy

(1916-09-30)30 September 1916
Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England
Died9 March 2020(2020-03-09) (aged 103)
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
NationalityBritish/Canadian
Alma materGonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Cambridge [BA 1938, MA 1941]
Known fornumber theory
geometry
Recreational mathematics
Strong Law of Small Numbers
unistable polyhedron
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Calgary
WebsiteUniversity of Calgary: Richard Guy

Richard Kenneth Guy (30 September 1916 – 9 March 2020) was a British-Canadian mathematician. He was professor emeritus in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Calgary.[1]

Guy was known for his work in number theory, geometry, recreational mathematics, combinatorics, and graph theory.[2][3] He is best known for co-authorship (with John Conway and Elwyn Berlekamp) of Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays and authorship of Unsolved Problems in Number Theory.[4]

He also published over 300 papers.[5]

Guy died on 9 March 2020 in Calgary, Alberta, aged 103.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Albers & Alexanderson (2011) p. 320
  2. ↑ MMA (2016)
  3. ↑ Author biography from Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays, Vol. I, 2nd ed., AK Peters, 2001.
  4. ↑ Roberts (2016)
  5. ↑ Scott (2012) p. 29
  6. ↑ Richard K. Guy (1916–2020)