Inside the mind of renowned mathematician John Conway - podcast
by Ian Sample from on (#V5Z6)
John Conway sheds light on the true nature of numbers, the beauty lying within maths and why game-playing is so important to mathematical discovery
John Conway is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University.
He's a mathematician widely known for his contributions to game theory, finite groups, knot theory, number theory and coding theory.
He has also devised many recreational maths games, including
the Game of Life cellular automaton, which brilliantly demonstrates how simplicity can generate complexity.