RT @QuantaMagazine
Mathematician John Horton Conway died on Saturday at age 82, reportedly from COVID-19. In “Genius At Play,” @sioroberts@twitter.com’ 2015 biography of Conway, she described him as “somewhere between ‘The Hobbit’s’ Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf.” (Thread)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/john-conways-life-in-games-20150828/