[HN Gopher] Three Mathematicians We Lost in 2020
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Three Mathematicians We Lost in 2020
Author : _pius
Score : 79 points
Date : 2021-01-19 19:57 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| xenocratus wrote:
| Terence Tao wrote a great obituary for Conway last year:
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| https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2020/04/12/john-conway/
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| "Godel's Lost Letter and P=NP" also does obituaries of
| mathematicians quite often, and goes more into detail on their
| work.
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| https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/john-horton-conway...
| gmfawcett wrote:
| Tao: "Conway was arguably an extreme point in the convex hull
| of all mathematicians." What a beautiful and mathy way to
| describe him.
| 1970-01-01 wrote:
| Vaughan Jones, winner of the 1990 Fields Medal, also lost to
| 2020.
| sexyhexy wrote:
| This is the saddest loss of all time
| pgtan wrote:
| Surprisingly for me, the passing of John D. Barrow went so
| unresonated. He has some great books about the idea of the
| mathematical universe and his lectures (on YT) are quite
| interesting.
| jostylr wrote:
| His book Pi in the Sky was one of the two most influential math
| books for me in my youth; the other was Modern Mathematics by
| Edna Kramer.
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| I had not heard of his death. Thanks for posting about it.
| guruparan18 wrote:
| John Conway loss will live in my memory for sometime, just like
| loosing John Nash on a car accident. Their contribution to math
| will outlive everything else.
| solstice wrote:
| Wear your seat belts, people...
| tombert wrote:
| I'm still sad about Conway. He was on my list of people that I
| was hoping to meet some day.
| neonate wrote:
| https://archive.is/vu4op
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