Yes, it is sad. He dies from the corona virus, aged 82. RIP John. A wonderful mathematician. He wrote many nice books, also. His book with Richard Guy “The book of Numbers" is a little chef d’oeuvre.
Bruno > On 21 Apr 2020, at 01:11, Lawrence Crowell <goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I heard about this on the day. I guess I should have posted this. The book by > Conway and Sloane, Sphere Packing, Lattices and Groups is great, and mine has > lots of sticky notes coming out of it. > > LC > > On Monday, April 20, 2020 at 4:29:44 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: > John Conway, the inventor of the Game Of Life and one of the greatest > mathematicians in the world has died of COVID-19. > > John Conway Solved Mathematical Problems With His Bare Hands > <https://www.quantamagazine.org/john-conway-solved-mathematical-problems-with-his-bare-hands-20200420/?utm_source=Quanta+Magazine&utm_campaign=7eacd42be1-RSS_Daily_Mathematics&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0cb61321c-7eacd42be1-390077669&mc_cid=7eacd42be1&mc_eid=1b0caa9e8c> > > John K Clark > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/e48e8f0d-c760-413f-afa4-c138419350fa%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/e48e8f0d-c760-413f-afa4-c138419350fa%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/9C5819B4-9878-44FA-ABC7-BE9F8E4433C9%40ulb.ac.be.
