surreal numbers – Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org Illuminating science Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:10:47 -0400 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 A Life in Games https://www.quantamagazine.org/john-conways-life-in-games-20150828/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/john-conways-life-in-games-20150828/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2015 14:40:19 +0000 https://www.quantamagazine.org/?p=18280 The post A Life in Games first appeared on Quanta Magazine

]]> Gnawing on his left index finger with his chipped old British teeth, temporal veins bulging and brow pensively squinched beneath the day-before-yesterday’s hair, the mathematician John Horton Conway unapologetically whiles away his hours tinkering and thinkering — which is to say he’s ruminating, although he will insist he’s doing nothing, being lazy, playing games. Based at Princeton University...

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