Coronavirus - those we've lost

[-jk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DwlnT3WxrI

Dr. Conway’s boundless curiosity produced profound contributions to number theory, game theory, coding theory, group theory, knot theory, topology, probability theory, algebra, analysis, combinatorics and more. Foremost, he considered himself a classical geometer.
“His swath was probably broader than anyone who ever lived,” said the mathematician Neil Sloane,


“In mathematics and physics there are two kinds of geniuses,” ... “There are the ordinary geniuses — they are just like you and me but they are better at it; if we’d worked hard enough, maybe we could get some of the same results.
“But then there are the magical geniuses,” he added. “Richard Feynman was a magical genius. And the same always struck me about John — he was a magical mathematician. He was a magical genius rather than an ordinary genius.”

His father, an autodidact, had left school at age 14 and, with his photographic memory, made a living playing cards.


Sounds like an amazing individual. A recommended read.

And he gave us The Game of Life (not Milton Bradley's). Give it a try!

-jk

[camion]

And he gave us The Game of Life (not Milton Bradley's). Give it a try!

-jk

I remember Life from many years ago. I put it on a DEC "mini" computer in the late seventies and played with it quite a bit when the boss wasn't looking. Interesting game.

[JasonEvans]

Roy Horn of Sigfreid and Roy has passed due to the disease.