RIP Mathematician John H. Conway

[robphy]

Sad.

There were a lot of reports on Twitter... but, at the time of this posting, nothing points to the usual reliable sources.
https://trenden.nice2have.jp/april-11th-2020-at-1300-john-conway-twitter-buzz/
Wikipedia has been going back and forth with edits... but now seems to have accepted it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_John_Horton_Conway

The following seems the most reliable.


https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4732 (claims to have a comment by John's widow)

https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/m...f-life-inventor-john-conway-in-3-days/786461/ (an online newspaper in that area near Princeton)

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2020/04/1...speels-genie-en-kenner-van-symmetrie-a3996590
John Horton Conway

https://www.math.princeton.edu/people/john-conway
https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=18849

I met him once at a math conference for students [like myself at the time] at Syracuse.
He complimented me on a talk I gave on a geometrical construction in relativity.

RIP.

robphy

https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0604079v1


more videos:


RIP

 

[Auto-Didact]

Requiescat in pace, John

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I really enjoyed his video on the Monster Group

 

[robphy]

Interview with John Horton Conway
https://www.ams.org/notices/201305/rnoti-p567.pdfA Life in Games
https://www.quantamagazine.org/john-conways-life-in-games-20150828/

has this image

"A survey of Life-forms, from a 1970 letter to Martin Gardner.
Courtesy of James Gardner, Martin Gardner Papers, Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries"

 

[sysprog]

Professor Conway's 'game of life' was one of the most neato things I learned when I first stepped on the way to becoming a computer nerd. He was an inspiration to us. He will be sorely missed.

 

[robphy]

 

[robphy]

Princeton University's Department of Mathematics
announces Conway's passing
https://www.math.princeton.edu/news/john-h-conway-1937-2020

http://web.math.princeton.edu/WebCV/ConwayBIB.pdf (dated 2009)

https://planetprinceton.com/2020/04...ian-game-of-life-inventor-john-horton-conway/

 

[jedishrfu]

Ars Technica article on Prof Conway

John Conway, inventor of the Game of Life, has died of COVID-19

https://arstechnica.com/science/202...tor-of-the-game-of-life-has-died-of-covid-19/

 

[Ibix]

Xkcd memorial: https://xkcd.com/2293/

 

[Jarvis323]

RIP John Conway. I know he hated being famous for the game of life, since he thought his other more interesting work had been overshadowed. Anyway, this is my favorite game of life video.

 

[robphy]

Possibly enlightening:
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/357197/conways-lesser-known-results

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2020/04/12/john-conway/

 

[chasrob]

RIP. I use his Chained Arrow Notation and Conway-Wechsler Notation in one of my SF stories.

 

[robphy]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/science/math-conway-game-of-life.html
The Lasting Lessons of John Conway’s Game of Life - by Siobhan Roberts (Dec. 28, 2020 Updated 9:18 a.m. ET)

 

[sysprog]

Prof. Conway was one of the all-time greats $-$ many aspiring programmers admired him $-$ in the early '80s one of my buddies wrote a tribute Game of Life program in PL1 that displayed nicely on a 3270 $\dots$

 

[waternohitter]

I gave my respect to him. RIP John Conway.