Reports on Twitter that Conway has died, from COVID-19. https://twitter.com/grahamfarmelo/status/1249069889534472192 --Michael -- Forewarned is worth an octopus in the bush.
What a loss! One of the most brilliant, playful, and prolific mathematicians of our time. - Cris
On Apr 11, 2020, at 3:06 PM, Michael Kleber <michael.kleber@gmail.com> wrote:
Reports on Twitter that Conway has died, from COVID-19.
https://twitter.com/grahamfarmelo/status/1249069889534472192
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So sad! All three authors of Winning Ways passed within the past 12 months. We will not see their like again. On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 2:10 PM Cris Moore via math-fun < math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
What a loss! One of the most brilliant, playful, and prolific mathematicians of our time.
- Cris
On Apr 11, 2020, at 3:06 PM, Michael Kleber <michael.kleber@gmail.com> wrote:
Reports on Twitter that Conway has died, from COVID-19.
https://twitter.com/grahamfarmelo/status/1249069889534472192
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https://twitter.com/CardColm/status/1249088354857226242?s=20 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22843306 A kick in the gut ... WFL On 4/11/20, Tomas Rokicki <rokicki@gmail.com> wrote:
So sad! All three authors of Winning Ways passed within the past 12 months. We will not see their like again.
On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 2:10 PM Cris Moore via math-fun < math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
What a loss! One of the most brilliant, playful, and prolific mathematicians of our time.
- Cris
On Apr 11, 2020, at 3:06 PM, Michael Kleber <michael.kleber@gmail.com> wrote:
Reports on Twitter that Conway has died, from COVID-19.
https://twitter.com/grahamfarmelo/status/1249069889534472192
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Oh no! Very sad. On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 7:39 PM Fred Lunnon <fred.lunnon@gmail.com> wrote:
https://twitter.com/CardColm/status/1249088354857226242?s=20
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22843306
A kick in the gut ... WFL
On 4/11/20, Tomas Rokicki <rokicki@gmail.com> wrote:
So sad! All three authors of Winning Ways passed within the past 12 months. We will not see their like again.
On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 2:10 PM Cris Moore via math-fun < math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
What a loss! One of the most brilliant, playful, and prolific mathematicians of our time.
- Cris
On Apr 11, 2020, at 3:06 PM, Michael Kleber <michael.kleber@gmail.com
wrote:
Reports on Twitter that Conway has died, from COVID-19.
https://twitter.com/grahamfarmelo/status/1249069889534472192
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https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2020/04/12/john-conway/ WFL On 4/12/20, James Buddenhagen <jbuddenh@gmail.com> wrote:
Oh no! Very sad.
On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 7:39 PM Fred Lunnon <fred.lunnon@gmail.com> wrote:
https://twitter.com/CardColm/status/1249088354857226242?s=20
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22843306
A kick in the gut ... WFL
On 4/11/20, Tomas Rokicki <rokicki@gmail.com> wrote:
So sad! All three authors of Winning Ways passed within the past 12 months. We will not see their like again.
On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 2:10 PM Cris Moore via math-fun < math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
What a loss! One of the most brilliant, playful, and prolific mathematicians of our time.
- Cris
On Apr 11, 2020, at 3:06 PM, Michael Kleber <michael.kleber@gmail.com
wrote:
Reports on Twitter that Conway has died, from COVID-19.
https://twitter.com/grahamfarmelo/status/1249069889534472192
--Michael
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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
Thanks, Adam! I was hoping this link included a recording of the talk, but it doesn’t seem to… - Cris
On Apr 14, 2020, at 8:19 AM, Adam P. Goucher <apgoucher@gmx.com> wrote:
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 <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.
Here is a photoset of Conway doing card tricks for fellow participants in a combinatorial game theory conference in Banff in 2005. https://flickr.com/photos/thane/albums/485759 On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 8:07 AM Cris Moore via math-fun < math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
Thanks, Adam! I was hoping this link included a recording of the talk, but it doesn’t seem to… - Cris
On Apr 14, 2020, at 8:19 AM, Adam P. Goucher <apgoucher@gmx.com> wrote:
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 < 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.
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Conway visited Arkansas in April of 2016. Due to some sort of communication breakdown--there were many that year--I did not even know the talk was scheduled to happen. Shortly after the fact, I was finally informed. It was not at all funny to me, being left out, and even less so today. If you understand science and the way the classification and rating systems work, it could all make perfect sense, with some people in the Math department, and others in the physics department, each minding their own business (but I refuse to accept that explanation as valid at all). During this same time I was studying odd plane tilings, and enjoyed learning about his "Tiling Groups", see: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2324578 (and the original reference therein) The mathoverflow thread is nice, but left this one out. Cheers, --Brad On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 9:20 AM Adam P. Goucher <apgoucher@gmx.com> wrote:
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
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