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[[FILE:Richard K Guy 2005.jpg|border|right|thumb|Richard K. Guy <ref>Richard K Guy at [http://www.birs.ca/events/2011/5-day-workshops/11w5073 Banff Conference on Combinatorial Game Theory], June 19, 2005, [http://www.flickr.com/photos/thane Photo] by [http://thaneplambeck.typepad.com/ Thane Plambeck], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_K._Guy Richard K. Guy from Wikipedia]</ref> ]]

'''Richard Kenneth Guy''', (September 30, 1916)<br/>
a British Canadian mathematician, and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Calgary University of Calgary]. His research interests include [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_game_theory combinatorial games] <ref>[[Richard J. Nowakowski]] ('''2009'''). ''The History of Combinatorial Game Theory''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalhousie_University Dalhousie University], [http://www.eos.tuwien.ac.at/OR/Mehlmann/Andis/publ/Spielmod10/HistoryCGT.pdf pdf]</ref>, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumerative_combinatorics enumerative combinatorics], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_geometry combinatorial geometry], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_theory number theory] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_theory graph theory] <ref>[http://math.ucalgary.ca/profiles/richard-guy Richard Guy | Mathematics and Statistics]</ref>. He studied mathematics at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge University of Cambridge], from 1941 to 1949 he was high school teacher at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldsmiths,_University_of_London Goldsmiths College] and then taught at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Malaya University of Malaya], from 1956 at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institutes_of_Technology Indian Institute of Technology] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Delhi New Delhi], and since 1962 at the University of Calgary <ref>[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kenneth_Guy Richard Kenneth Guy – Wikipedia.de] (German)</ref>.

Guy is chess player and composer of [[Chess Problems, Compositions and Studies|chess endgame studies]], and was along with [[John Roycroft]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Blandford Hugh Blandford] co-inventor of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBR_code Guy-Blandford-Roycroft] code for classifying studies. In 1939, he started the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockport_Grammar_School Stockport Grammar School] Chess Club <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Phillips_%28chess_player%29 Alan Phillips (chess player) from Wikipedia]</ref>, and served as endgame study editor for the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Chess_Magazine British Chess Magazine] from 1948 to 1951 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_K._Guy Richard K. Guy from Wikipedia]</ref>.

=Winning Ways=
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winning_Ways_for_your_Mathematical_Plays Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays] by [[Elwyn Berlekamp]], [[John H. Conway]], and [[Richard K. Guy]] is a compendium of information on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_game mathematical games], [[#WinningWays1|first]] published 1982 in two volumes, [[#WinningWays2|second edition]] published in four volumes from 2001 until 2004.

=Le Problème=
Le Problème, 1938 <ref>[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kenneth_Guy#Schachkomposition Richard Kenneth Guy - Schachkomposition - Wikipedia.de] (German)</ref> and 1939 <ref>[http://chesscomposers.blogspot.de/2012/09/september-30th.html Chess Composers: September 30th]</ref> by [[Richard K. Guy]], white to move wins :
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=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/g/Guy:Richard_K=.html dblp: Richard K. Guy]</ref> <ref>[http://math.ucalgary.ca/profiles/richard-guy Richard Guy | Mathematics and Statistics]</ref>
==1956 ...==
* [[Richard K. Guy]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric_Smith_%28statistician%29 Cedric A. B. Smith] ('''1956'''). ''[http://www.researchgate.net/publication/231828613_The_G-values_of_various_games The G-values of various games]''. [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Proceedings_of_the_Cambridge_Philosophical_Society Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society], Vol. 52 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim Nim from Wikipedia]</ref> <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprague%E2%80%93Grundy_theorem Sprague–Grundy theorem from Wikipedia]</ref>
* [[Richard K. Guy]] ('''1958'''). ''Two theorems on partitions''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mathematical_Gazette Mathematical Gazette], Vol. 42
==1960 ...==
* [[Richard K. Guy]] ('''1960'''). ''A combinatorial problem''. [http://www.worldcat.org/title/nabla/oclc/243874131 Nabla], Vol. 7 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_number_%28graph_theory%29 Crossing number from Wikipedia]</ref>
* [[Richard K. Guy]], [[Mathematician#FHarary|Frank Harary]] ('''1967'''). ''On the Möbius ladders''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Mathematical_Bulletin Canadian Mathematical Bulletin], Vol. 10 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_ladder Möbius ladder from Wikipedia]</ref>
* [[Richard K. Guy]] ('''1967'''). ''A coarseness conjecture of Erdős''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Combinatorial_Theory Journal of Combinatorial Theory], Vol. 3
* [[Richard K. Guy]], [[Mathematician#ECMilner|Eric C. Milner]] ('''1968'''). ''Graphs defined by coverings of a set''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acta_Mathematica_Hungarica Acta Mathematica Hungarica], Vol. 19
* [[Richard K. Guy]], [http://ece.umass.edu/faculty/patrick-kelly Patrick A. Kelly] ('''1968'''). ''The no-three-in-line problem''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Mathematical_Bulletin Canadian Mathematical Bulletin], Vol. 11
* [[Richard K. Guy]] ('''1969'''). ''Decline and fall of Zarankiewicz's Theorem''. [http://www.worldcat.org/title/proof-techniques-in-graph-theory-proceedings-of-the-second-ann-arbor-graph-theory-conference-february-1968/oclc/489878895 Proof Techniques in Graph Theory] edited by [[Mathematician#FHarary|Frank Harary]] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarankiewicz_problem Zarankiewicz problem from Wikipedia]</ref>
==1970 ...==
* [[Mathematician#Erdos|Paul Erdős]], [[Richard K. Guy]] ('''1970'''). ''Distinct distances between lattice points''. [http://www.math.ethz.ch/elemente/ Elemente der Mathematik], Vol. 25
* [[Mathematician#JSelfridge|John Selfridge]], [[Richard K. Guy]] ('''1971'''). ''Primality testing with application to small machines''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Calgary University of Calgary]
* [[Mathematician#Erdos|Paul Erdős]], [[Richard K. Guy]] ('''1973'''). ''Crossing number problems''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Mathematical_Monthly American Mathematical Monthly], Vol. 80 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_number_%28graph_theory%29 Crossing number from Wikipedia]</ref>
* [[Richard K. Guy]], [[Richard J. Nowakowski]] ('''1975'''). ''Discovering primes with Euclid''. Delta, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waukesha,_Wisconsin Waukesha], Vol. 5, No. 2
* [[Richard K. Guy]] ('''1976'''). ''How to factor a number''. [http://www.worldcat.org/title/congressus-numerantium/oclc/8270976 Congressus Numerantium], No. XVI
* [[Richard K. Guy]], [[Mathematician#GRingel|Gerhard Ringel]] ('''1976'''). ''[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/009589567690054X Triangular imbedding of Kn − K6]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Combinatorial_Theory Journal of Combinatorial Theory], Series B, Vol. 21, No. 2 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heawood_conjecture Heawood conjecture from Wikipedia]</ref>
==1980 ...==
* [[Richard K. Guy]] ('''1981'''). ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsolved_Problems_in_Number_Theory Unsolved Problems in Number Theory]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer]
* [[Mathematician#Erdos|Paul Erdős]], [[Richard K. Guy]], [[Mathematician#JSelfridge|John Selfridge]] ('''1982'''). ''Another property of '''239''' and some related question''. [http://www.worldcat.org/title/congressus-numerantium/oclc/8270976 Congressus Numerantium], No. 34
* [[Richard K. Guy]] ('''1982'''). ''John Horton Conway: mathematical magus''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Mathematics_Journal The Two-Year College Mathematics Journal], 13.5
* <span id="WinningWays1"></span>[[Elwyn Berlekamp]], [[John H. Conway]], [[Richard K. Guy]] ('''1982'''). ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winning_Ways_for_your_Mathematical_Plays Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays]''. Vol. 1, 1st edition, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Press Academic Press]
* [[Elwyn Berlekamp]], [[John H. Conway]], [[Richard K. Guy]] ('''1982'''). ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winning_Ways_for_your_Mathematical_Plays Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays]''. Vol. 2, 1st edition, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Press Academic Press] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_problem Angel problem from Wikipedia]</ref>
* [[Mathematician#Bollobas|Béla Bollobás]], [[Richard K. Guy]] ('''1983'''). ''[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0095895683900175 Equitable and Proportional Coloring of Trees]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Combinatorial_Theory Journal of Combinatorial Theory], Series B, Vol. 34, No. 2
* [[Richard K. Guy]] ('''1983'''). ''Conway's prime producing machine''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_Magazine Mathematics Magazine], Vol. 56, No. 1
* [[Richard K. Guy]] ('''1988'''). ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_Law_of_Small_Numbers The Strong Law of Small Numbers]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Mathematical_Monthly American Mathematical Monthly], Vol. 95, No. 8
* [[Richard K. Guy]] ('''1989'''). ''Fair Game: How to Play Impartial Combinatorial Games''. Exploration in Math Series, [http://www.comap.com/ Comap]
==1990 ...==
* [[Richard K. Guy]] ('''1991'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4612-0967-6_30 Mathematics from Fun & Fun from Mathematics: An Informal Autobiographical History of Combinatorial Games]''. in [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=4401 John H. Ewing], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Gehring F. W. Gehring] (eds) ''[http://www.springer.com/mathematics/analysis/book/978-0-387-97509-2 PAUL HALMOS Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer] <ref>[[Mathematician#PHalmos|Paul Halmos]]</ref>
* [[Richard K. Guy]], [[John H. Conway]], [[Elwyn Berlekamp]], [[Mathematician#VPless|Vera Pless]], [[Aviezri Fraenkel]], [[Richard J. Nowakowski]] ('''1991'''). ''[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5136619-combinatorial-games Combinatorial Games]''. Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics, No. 43
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Sallows Lee Sallows], [[Martin Gardner]], [[Richard K. Guy]], [[Donald Knuth]] ('''1991'''). ''Serial Isogons of 90 Degrees''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_Magazine Mathematics Magazine], Vol. 64, No. 5
* [[Richard K. Guy]] ('''1994'''). ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsolved_Problems_in_Number_Theory Unsolved Problems in Number Theory]''. 2nd edition, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer]
* [[John H. Conway]], [[Richard K. Guy]] ('''1996'''). ''[http://www.springer.com/mathematics/numbers/book/978-0-387-97993-9 The Book of Numbers]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer]
* [[Richard K. Guy]], [[John Roycroft]], [https://plus.google.com/108830667476351401818/about Kenneth Solja] ('''1996'''). ''[http://www.worldcat.org/title/richard-guys-chess-endgame-studies/oclc/037231061 Richard Guy's Chess Endgame Studies]''. Prime Actions
==2000 ...==
* [[Richard K. Guy]] ('''2001'''). ''Aviezri Fraenkel and Combinatorial Games''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Journal_of_Combinatorics Electronic Journal of Combinatorics] Vol. 8, No. 2 [http://www.combinatorics.org/Volume_8/PDF/v8i2i2.pdf pdf]
* <span id="WinningWays2"></span>[[Elwyn Berlekamp]], [[John H. Conway]], [[Richard K. Guy]] ('''2001'''). ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winning_Ways_for_your_Mathematical_Plays Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays]''. Vol. 1, 2nd edition, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_K_Peters,_Ltd. A K Peters Ltd.]
* [[Richard K. Guy]], [[Richard J. Nowakowski]] ('''2002'''). ''Unsolved Problems in Combinatorial Game Theory''. [http://library.msri.org/books/Book42/ More Games of No Chance] edited by [[Richard J. Nowakowski]], [http://library.msri.org/books/Book42/files/guy.pdf pdf]
* [[Elwyn Berlekamp]], [[John H. Conway]], [[Richard K. Guy]] ('''2003'''). ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winning_Ways_for_your_Mathematical_Plays Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays]''. Vol. 2, 2nd edition, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_K_Peters,_Ltd. A K Peters Ltd.]
* [[Elwyn Berlekamp]], [[John H. Conway]], [[Richard K. Guy]] ('''2003'''). ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winning_Ways_for_your_Mathematical_Plays Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays]''. Vol. 3, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_K_Peters,_Ltd. A K Peters Ltd.]
* [[Elwyn Berlekamp]], [[John H. Conway]], [[Richard K. Guy]] ('''2004'''). ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winning_Ways_for_your_Mathematical_Plays Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays]''. Vol. 4, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_K_Peters,_Ltd. A K Peters Ltd.]
* [[Richard K. Guy]] ('''2004'''). ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsolved_Problems_in_Number_Theory Unsolved Problems in Number Theory]''. 3rd edition, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer]
* [[Richard K. Guy]] ('''2007'''). ''The Lighthouse Theorem, Morley & Malfatti: A Budget of Paradoxes''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Mathematical_Monthly The American Mathematical Monthly], Vol. 114, No. 2 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morley%27s_trisector_theorem Morley's trisector theorem from Wikipedia]</ref> <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malfatti_circles Malfatti circles from Wikipedia]</ref>
==2010 ...==
* [[Mathematician#RScheidler|Renate Scheidler]], [https://uoraas.ied.edu.hk/rich/web/people_details.jsp?pid=87133 Kell Hiu-Fai Cheng], [[Richard K. Guy]], [[Mathematician#HCWilliams|Hugh C. Williams]] ('''2013'''). ''Classification and symmetries of a family of continued fractions with bounded period length''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Mathematical_Society#Society_journals Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society], Vol. 93, Nos. 1-2, [http://people.ucalgary.ca/~rscheidl/Papers/JAMS-Submission.pdf pdf]

=External Links=
* [http://math.ucalgary.ca/profiles/richard-guy Richard Guy | Mathematics and Statistics]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_K._Guy Richard K. Guy from Wikipedia]
* [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=1452 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Richard Guy]
* [http://chesscomposers.blogspot.de/2012/09/september-30th.html Chess Composers: September 30th]
* [http://jbmusictherapy.com/louise-guy-lived-her-best-life/ Louise Guy, Lived Her Best Life | JB Music], October 4, 2010
* [http://math.ucalgary.ca/news-events/news/richard-louise-guy-lecture-series-event-sept-20-2012 Richard & Louise Guy Lecture Series], September 20, 2012
: [http://www.mathtube.org/lecture/video/mathematics-doodling Mathematics of Doodling] from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Institute_for_the_Mathematical_Sciences#mathtube.org mathtube.org]
* [http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/node/9010 8th annual Richard & Louise Guy Lecture], September 12, 2013

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