John Conway

What's new 2020-04-13

Summary:

I was greatly saddened to learn that John Conway died yesterday from COVID-19, aged 82. My own mathematical areas of expertise are somewhat far from Conway’s; I have played for instance with finite simple groups on occasion, but have not studied his work on moonshine and the monster group.  But I have certainly encountered his […]

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https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2020/04/12/john-conway/

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Authors:

Terence Tao

Date tagged:

04/13/2020, 11:16

Date published:

04/12/2020, 16:46