Conway

[ kon-wey ]

noun

1. Thomas, 1735–1800?, Irish soldier of fortune in America and India.
2. a city in central Arkansas.
3. a town in E South Carolina.
4. a male given name.

Example Sentences

They also implemented these algorithms on far better computers than Conway and Jones had had at their disposal when they proposed the roots-of-unity attack on the problem.

From Quanta Magazine

“Conway and Jones asked about rational tetrahedra as a special case of the much harder question of classifying tetrahedra,” said Kedlaya.

From Quanta Magazine

As for the name of the game, I’ve adopted “Game of Tile,” which was suggested by Glenn Gould as a tribute to Conway.

From Quanta Magazine

Unfortunately, she never revealed what she’d learned from Conway’s novel.

From Washington Post

Unlike most games we’re used to — but like Conway’s Game of Life — it’s a “no-player never-ending” game, as Conway described his creation.

From Quanta Magazine

Conway says the audience is asked to vote all the way through the show.

From The Daily Beast

Conway goes on to list a series of other coincidences that he suggests are not simply explained.

From The Daily Beast

“The play contains one five minute scene about James Hewitt,” Conway says.

From The Daily Beast

Based on the book King of Heists by J. North Conway, Globe Pequot, 2009.

From The Daily Beast

The hotels were, for a couple of decades, truly magnificent, but Conway insists, “It was all built upon smoke and mirrors.”

From The Daily Beast

A few miles brought us to the Conway River, the road closely following the stream through the picturesque scenery on its banks.

From Project Gutenberg

An hour's run after leaving Bangor brought us in sight of the towers of Conway Castle.

From Project Gutenberg

Nowhere in Britain does the spirit of mediaevalism linger as it does in the ancient town of Conway.

From Project Gutenberg

On leaving Conway we crossed the suspension bridge, paying a goodly toll for the privilege.

From Project Gutenberg

The Conway bridge was first completed, and the first train passed through the Britannia bridge in 1850.

From Project Gutenberg