Richard+K.+Guy

a British Canadian mathematician, and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics at the [|University of Calgary]. His research interests include [|combinatorial games], [|enumerative combinatorics], [|combinatorial geometry], [|number theory] and [|graph theory]. He studied mathematics at the [|University of Cambridge], from 1941 to 1949 he was high school teacher at [|Goldsmiths College] and then taught at the [|University of Malaya], from 1956 at [|Indian Institute of Technology] in [|New Delhi], and since 1962 at the University of Calgary.
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 * [[image:Richard_K_Guy_2005.jpg link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_K_Guy_2005.jpg"]] ||~ || **Richard Kenneth Guy**, (September 30, 1916)

Guy is chess player and composer of chess endgame studies, and was along with John Roycroft and [|Hugh Blandford] co-inventor of the [|Guy-Blandford-Roycroft] code for classifying studies. In 1939, he started the [|Stockport Grammar School] Chess Club, and served as endgame study editor for the [|British Chess Magazine] from 1948 to 1951. toc =Winning Ways= [|Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays] by Elwyn Berlekamp, John H. Conway, and Richard K. Guy is a compendium of information on [|mathematical games], first published 1982 in two volumes, second edition published in four volumes from 2001 until 2004.
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 * Winning Ways authors Richard K. Guy, John H. Conway, and Elwyn Berlekamp ||

=Le Problème= Le Problème, 1938 and 1939 by Richard K. Guy, white to move wins :
 * [[image:http://webchess.freehostia.com/diag/chessdiag.php?fen=8/1p1p1p2/pP1P1P2/8/k1p5/2P1p1pP/2P1P1P1/4K3%20w%20-%20-&size=medium&coord=yes&cap=no&stm=yes&fb=no&theme=classic&color1=E3CEAA&color2=635147&color3=000000 caption="8/1p1p1p2/pP1P1P2/8/k1p5/2P1p1pP/2P1P1P1/4K3 w - -"]] ||[[image:http://webchess.freehostia.com/diag/chessdiag.php?fen=8/8/8/3BB2K/8/8/pp1p4/k1b3R1%20w%20-%20-&size=medium&coord=yes&cap=no&stm=yes&fb=no&theme=classic&color1=E3CEAA&color2=635147&color3=000000 caption="8/8/8/3BB2K/8/8/pp1p4/k1b3R1 w - -"]] ||

=Selected Publications=

1956 ...

 * Richard K. Guy, [|Cedric A. B. Smith] (**1956**). //[|The G-values of various games]//. [|Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society], Vol. 52
 * Richard K. Guy (**1958**). //Two theorems on partitions//. [|Mathematical Gazette], Vol. 42

1960 ...

 * Richard K. Guy (**1960**). //A combinatorial problem//. [|Nabla], Vol. 7
 * Richard K. Guy, Frank Harary (**1967**). //On the Möbius ladders//. [|Canadian Mathematical Bulletin], Vol. 10
 * Richard K. Guy (**1967**). //A coarseness conjecture of Erdős//. [|Journal of Combinatorial Theory], Vol. 3
 * Richard K. Guy, Eric C. Milner (**1968**). //Graphs defined by coverings of a set//. [|Acta Mathematica Hungarica], Vol. 19
 * Richard K. Guy, [|Patrick A. Kelly] (**1968**). //The no-three-in-line problem//. [|Canadian Mathematical Bulletin], Vol. 11
 * Richard K. Guy (**1969**). //Decline and fall of Zarankiewicz's Theorem//. [|Proof Techniques in Graph Theory] edited by Frank Harary

1970 ...

 * Paul Erdős, Richard K. Guy (**1970**). //Distinct distances between lattice points//. [|Elemente der Mathematik], Vol. 25
 * John Selfridge, Richard K. Guy (**1971**). //Primality testing with application to small machines//. [|University of Calgary]
 * Paul Erdős, Richard K. Guy (**1973**). //Crossing number problems//. [|American Mathematical Monthly], Vol. 80
 * Richard K. Guy, Richard J. Nowakowski (**1975**). //Discovering primes with Euclid//. Delta, [|Waukesha], Vol. 5, No. 2
 * Richard K. Guy (**1976**). //How to factor a number//. [|Congressus Numerantium], No. XVI
 * Richard K. Guy, Gerhard Ringel (**1976**). //[|Triangular imbedding of Kn − K6]//. [|Journal of Combinatorial Theory], Series B, Vol. 21, No. 2

1980 ...

 * Richard K. Guy (**1981**). //[|Unsolved Problems in Number Theory]//. [|Springer]
 * Paul Erdős, Richard K. Guy, John Selfridge (**1982**). //Another property of **239** and some related question//. [|Congressus Numerantium], No. 34
 * Richard K. Guy (**1982**). //John Horton Conway: mathematical magus//. [|The Two-Year College Mathematics Journal], 13.5
 * Elwyn Berlekamp, John H. Conway, Richard K. Guy (**1982**). //[|Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays]//. Vol. 1, 1st edition, [|Academic Press]
 * Elwyn Berlekamp, John H. Conway, Richard K. Guy (**1982**). //[|Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays]//. Vol. 2, 1st edition, [|Academic Press]
 * Béla Bollobás, Richard K. Guy (**1983**). //[|Equitable and Proportional Coloring of Trees]//. [|Journal of Combinatorial Theory], Series B, Vol. 34, No. 2
 * Richard K. Guy (**1983**). //Conway's prime producing machine//. [|Mathematics Magazine], Vol. 56, No. 1
 * Richard K. Guy (**1988**). //[|The Strong Law of Small Numbers]//. [|American Mathematical Monthly], Vol. 95, No. 8
 * Richard K. Guy (**1989**). //Fair Game: How to Play Impartial Combinatorial Games//. Exploration in Math Series, [|Comap]

1990 ...

 * Richard K. Guy (**1991**). //[|Mathematics from Fun & Fun from Mathematics: An Informal Autobiographical History of Combinatorial Games]//. in [|John H. Ewing], [|F. W. Gehring] (eds) //[|PAUL HALMOS Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics]//. [|Springer]
 * Richard K. Guy, John H. Conway, Elwyn Berlekamp, Vera Pless, Aviezri Fraenkel, Richard J. Nowakowski (**1991**). //[|Combinatorial Games]//. Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics, No. 43
 * [|Lee Sallows], Martin Gardner, Richard K. Guy, Donald Knuth (**1991**). //Serial Isogons of 90 Degrees//. [|Mathematics Magazine], Vol. 64, No. 5
 * Richard K. Guy (**1994**). //[|Unsolved Problems in Number Theory]//. 2nd edition, [|Springer]
 * John H. Conway, Richard K. Guy (**1996**). //[|The Book of Numbers]//. [|Springer]
 * Richard K. Guy, John Roycroft, [|Kenneth Solja] (**1996**). //[|Richard Guy's Chess Endgame Studies]//. Prime Actions

2000 ...

 * Richard K. Guy (**2001**). //Aviezri Fraenkel and Combinatorial Games//. [|Electronic Journal of Combinatorics] Vol. 8, No. 2 [|pdf]
 * Elwyn Berlekamp, John H. Conway, Richard K. Guy (**2001**). //[|Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays]//. Vol. 1, 2nd edition, [|A K Peters Ltd.]
 * Richard K. Guy, Richard J. Nowakowski (**2002**). //Unsolved Problems in Combinatorial Game Theory//. [|More Games of No Chance] edited by Richard J. Nowakowski, [|pdf]
 * Elwyn Berlekamp, John H. Conway, Richard K. Guy (**2003**). //[|Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays]//. Vol. 2, 2nd edition, [|A K Peters Ltd.]
 * Elwyn Berlekamp, John H. Conway, Richard K. Guy (**2003**). //[|Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays]//. Vol. 3, [|A K Peters Ltd.]
 * Elwyn Berlekamp, John H. Conway, Richard K. Guy (**2004**). //[|Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays]//. Vol. 4, [|A K Peters Ltd.]
 * Richard K. Guy (**2004**). //[|Unsolved Problems in Number Theory]//. 3rd edition, [|Springer]
 * Richard K. Guy (**2007**). //The Lighthouse Theorem, Morley & Malfatti: A Budget of Paradoxes//. [|The American Mathematical Monthly], Vol. 114, No. 2

2010 ...

 * Renate Scheidler, [|Kell Hiu-Fai Cheng], Richard K. Guy, Hugh C. Williams (**2013**). //Classification and symmetries of a family of continued fractions with bounded period length//. [|Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society], Vol. 93, Nos. 1-2, [|pdf]

=External Links= > [|Mathematics of Doodling] from [|mathtube.org]
 * [|Richard Guy | Mathematics and Statistics]
 * [|Richard K. Guy from Wikipedia]
 * [|The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Richard Guy]
 * [|Chess Composers: September 30th]
 * [|Louise Guy, Lived Her Best Life | JB Music], October 4, 2010
 * [|Richard & Louise Guy Lecture Series], September 20, 2012
 * [|8th annual Richard & Louise Guy Lecture], September 12, 2013

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