John Horton Conway, a ‘Magical Genius’ in Math, Dies at 82 by BY SIOBHAN ROBERTS


He made profound contributions to number theory, coding theory, probability theory, topology, algebra and more — and created games from it all. He died of the coronavirus.

Published: April 15, 2020 at 11:09PM

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