{"589100":{"#nid":"589100","#data":{"type":"news","title":"2002 Stelson Lecture - John Horton Conway","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Horton_Conway\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EJohn Conway\u003C\/a\u003E, F.R.S., is the John von Neumann Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University. He is a masterful expositor of mathematics who is perhaps most widely known as the inventor of the Game of Life (popular screensaver and important example of a cellular automaton). Professor Conway is the author of numerous articles and books, including Winning Ways. He has received many prizes, including the P\u0026oacute;lya Prize from the London Mathematical Society, the Nemmers Prize, and the Steele Prize from the American Mathematical Society.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003ETangles, Knots and Numbers\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHow can you understand the shape of a knot, or prove that it really is knotted? What makes one knot different from another? I\u0026#39;ll describe some ways in which elementary arithmetic can help. Although we\u0026#39;re all familiar with knots, the theory of knots is a hard subject; it took more than a century before mathematicians were even able to find a guaranteed way to tell whether a string is knotted or not. However, some things are easy...\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Stelson Lecture by  guest speaker John Horton conway"}],"uid":"34465","created_gmt":"2017-03-22 14:38:29","changed_gmt":"2017-04-06 14:56:17","author":"math-csg1b","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2002-04-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2002-04-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"589915":{"id":"589915","type":"image","title":"John Horton Conway","body":null,"created":"1491490465","gmt_created":"2017-04-06 14:54:25","changed":"1491490465","gmt_changed":"2017-04-06 14:54:25","alt":"","file":{"fid":"224732","name":"conway-stelson.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/conway-stelson.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/conway-stelson.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":33846,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/conway-stelson.jpg?itok=WkrynBSY"}}},"media_ids":["589915"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.math.gatech.edu\/news-events\/stelson","title":"\u2190 View Previous Stelson Lectures"}],"groups":[{"id":"1279","name":"School of Mathematics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"173647","name":"_for_math_site_"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}