Also known as
conway:
John von Neumann professor of math at
Princeton. Really
intelligent mathematician who sits around in his office all day and plays games. Discovered the
surreal numbers (
Donald Knuth wrote a great
Alice and Bob dialogue on this) by watching Go. Nine in ten
geeks have coded his
Game of Life. Work is in combinatorics, knot theory, number theory, group theory, algebra, and logic.
Editor's note: John Conway died on April 11th, 2020, from complications secondary to infection with Covid-19.