John Horton Conway, an English-born Princeton mathematician whose body of work ranged from the rigorously highbrow to the frivolously fun, earning him prizes and a reputation as a creative, ...
“Genius” is the biography of another mathematical genius, John Horton Conway. Conway was educated at Cambridge and taught there, sometimes barefoot, inventing “The Game of Life” in 1970, which ...
This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American "In the beginning, everything was void, and J ...
On April 11, 2020, John Horton Conway died of COVID-19 at the age of 82 in New Brunswick, N.J. The areas of research covered by this remarkable mathematician included group theory, node theory, ...
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