Can you solve it? John Horton Conway, playful maths genius
by Alex Bellos from Science | The Guardian on (#52CM9)
Two gems from the wizard of recreational maths
Today's column is a celebration of John Horton Conway, the legendary British mathematician, who died of coronavirus earlier this month, aged 82.
Conway was an inspirational, iconoclastic genius who invented and studied countless puzzles and games, in addition to his more highbrow work in group theory, number theory, geometry, topology and many other fields.
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