Mathematician:Richard Kenneth Guy

Mathematician

English mathematician most famous for his work in the fields of game theory, number theory and graph theory.

Nationality

English

History

• Born: 30 September 1916 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England
• Died: 9 March 2020

Theorems and Definitions

• Strong Law of Small Numbers

Publications

• 1976: Triangular embedding of Kn - K6 (with Gerhard Ringel)

• 1981: Unsolved Problems in Number Theory
  • 1994: Unsolved Problems in Number Theory, 2nd ed.
  • 2004: Unsolved Problems in Number Theory, 3rd ed.

• 1982: Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays (with John H. Conway and Elwyn Berlekamp)
• 1983: Equitable and Proportional Coloring of Trees (with Béla Bollobás)
• 1988: The Strong Law of Small Numbers

• 1990: The Second Strong Law of Small Numbers (Mathematics Magazine Vol. 63, no. 1: pp. 3 – 20)  www.jstor.org/stable/2691503

• 1991: Unsolved Problems in Geometry (with Hallard Croft and Kenneth Falconer)

• Feb. 1994: Every Number is Expressible as the Sum of How Many Polygonal Numbers? (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 101, no. 2: pp. 169 – 172)  www.jstor.org/stable/2324367

• 1996: The Book of Numbers (with John H. Conway)
• 2001: Aviezri Fraenkel and Combinatorial Games