John Horton Conway, a ‘Magical Genius’ in Math, Dies at 82

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/technology/john-horton-conway-dead-coronavirus.html
April 16, 2020 at 01:09AM

He made profound contributions to number theory, coding theory, probability theory, topology, algebra and more — and created games from it all. He died of the coronavirus.