{"id":496,"date":"2020-05-27T12:06:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T11:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/?p=496"},"modified":"2020-05-27T12:06:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T11:06:15","slug":"some-recreational-mathematics-of-the-late-john-h-conway-jack-mckenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/2020\/05\/27\/some-recreational-mathematics-of-the-late-john-h-conway-jack-mckenna\/","title":{"rendered":"Some recreational mathematics of the late John H. Conway (Jack McKenna)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">17:00, May 22, Microsoft Teams meeting<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> The recently departed John Horton Conway was a prolific mathematician whose work was often inspired by games and puzzles. I hope to demonstrate and explain a few of his results, including the Doomsday algorithm for mentally calculating the day of the week for any calendar date, and the problem of Conway&#8217;s soldiers for playing games of draughts on an infinite checkerboard.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17:00, May 22, Microsoft Teams meeting Abstract: The recently departed John Horton Conway was a prolific mathematician whose work was often inspired by games and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/2020\/05\/27\/some-recreational-mathematics-of-the-late-john-h-conway-jack-mckenna\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64811,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208120],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64811"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}