14 Apr
2020
14 Apr
'20
2:20 p.m.
I only met John Conway once (on 19th November 2015, when he gave a talk at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge on the topic of surreal numbers). http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/62570 I particularly remember his excellent sense of humour: he apologised for pronouncing 'z' as 'zee' [as a result of being in Princeton for the last few decades] and on the second occasion remarked: "I define 'zee' to be 'zed'" so that he could continue using the US and UK pronunciations interchangeably. -------- This is a great thread, incidentally: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/357197/conways-lesser-known-results Best wishes, Adam P. Goucher