John Horton Conway, mathematician and inventor of Conway's Game of Life has been reported by a colleague to have died from COVID-19 at the age of 82. Conway's death has also been reported (in Italian) by the Italian website "MaddMaths!".
From Wikipedia:
The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. The game is a zero-player game, meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further input. One interacts with the Game of Life by creating an initial configuration and observing how it evolves. It is Turing complete and can simulate a universal constructor or any other Turing machine.
Many different types of patterns occur in the Game of Life, which are classified according to their behaviour. Common pattern types include: still lifes, which do not change from one generation to the next; oscillators, which return to their initial state after a finite number of generations; and spaceships, which translate themselves across the grid.
Rest In Peace, John.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Sunday April 12 2020, @06:58PM (5 children)
https://www.i-programmer.info/news/82-heritage/13614-john-conway-dies-from-coronavirus.html [i-programmer.info]
https://twitter.com/sioroberts [twitter.com]
https://siobhanroberts.com/books/ [siobhanroberts.com]
Confirmed by a biographer. Probably solid enough.
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(Score: 2, Disagree) by canopic jug on Sunday April 12 2020, @07:07PM (4 children)
Ok. Thanks. It looks like the sad news is confirmed by the one source there in your first link. Tweeter is just hearsay and the third link does not seem to mention his death.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Sunday April 12 2020, @07:53PM (3 children)
Twitter is not just hearsay.
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(Score: 3, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Sunday April 12 2020, @08:21PM (1 child)
You're right. It's just twitsay.
(Score: 3, Touché) by RamiK on Sunday April 12 2020, @11:01PM
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Conway Twitty [youtube.com]
compiling...
(Score: 3, Informative) by DannyB on Monday April 13 2020, @04:33PM
Heresy?
Difficult to know what to believe in the age of the Trump virus.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.