- Richard K. Guy
Richard Kenneth Guy (born 1916,
Nuneaton ,Warwickshire ) is a British mathematician,Professor Emeritus in the Department ofMathematics at theUniversity of Calgary .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 " (ISBN 0-387-94289-0), but he has also published over 100 papers and books coveringcombinatorial game theory ,number theory andgraph theory .He is said to have developed the partially tongue-in-cheek "
Strong Law of Small Numbers ," which says there are not enough small integers available for the many tasks assigned to them — thus explaining many coincidences and patterns found among numerous cultures.Additionally, around 1959, Guy discovered a
unistable polyhedron having only 19 faces; no such construct with fewer faces has yet been found.Guy is also a notable figure in the field of
chess endgame studies . He composed around 200 studies, and was co-inventor of theGuy-Blandford-Roycroft code for classifying studies. He also served as the endgame study editor for the "British Chess Magazine " from 1948 to 1951.Guy wrote four papers with
Paul Erdős , giving him anErdős number of 1.elected publications
*Richard K. Guy:
Aviezri Fraenkel and Combinatorial Games. Electr. J. Comb. 8(2): (2001)
*Béla Bollobás , Richard K. Guy: Equitable and proportional coloring of trees. J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B 34(2): 177–186 (1983)
*Richard K. Guy,Gerhard Ringel : Triangular imbedding of Kn – K6. J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B 21(2): 140–145 (1976)External links
* [http://www.math.ucalgary.ca/general/directory.php3?personid=36&capacityid=22 Personal web page]
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