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John Conway has died due to complications of the Coronavirus

>> No.11555748

https://twitter.com/maglarecherche/status/1249035954519773186

>> No.11555752

>>11555746
We need a sticky

>> No.11555760

>>11555748
> Something went wrong. Try again.
Why is that? Is the twitter AI freaking out?

>> No.11555786
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>>11555746
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>> No.11555790

>>11555746
RIP A LEGEND

>> No.11555846

is it confirmed?

>> No.11555865

>>11555746
Who? Is it obligatory jewish whorship time again?

>> No.11555888

>>11555865
He's anglo.

>> No.11555891

>>11555865
The inventor of the Conway's Game of Life. Something that taught me some deep mathematics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouipbDkwHWA

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>>11555746
the fabled hoax-within-a-hoax

>> No.11555939

>>11555891
Conway did so much more than introduce the game of life. The guy is an inspiration.

>> No.11555989

rest in peace, Dr. Conway

>> No.11555993

surreal numbers are cool RIP

>> No.11556052

>>11555891
>>11555939
Game of Life was pretty much something he did on his free time, which ended up being not only fun to play with but also something interesting to study for the CS guys. The guy was an incessant source of creativity.

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>>11555760
I can see it just fine.

>> No.11556080

FLAWLESS VICTORY

>> No.11556129

O________________________________________O

>> No.11556169

>>11556058
hours later, yes. Now I can also see it

>> No.11556184

>>11555888
That's even worse.

>> No.11556200

:(

>> No.11556315

>>11555746
I'm going to need something more credible than a twitter tweet from 6 hours ago with no other mainstream confirmation.

>> No.11556340

>>11556315
the guy is old as fuck, why would his friend lie about that? mans dead deal with it

>> No.11556416

>>11555746
>His wife confirmed his dead.
Well lads

>> No.11556425

Theres nothing left
Whats

Aaaa
Theres no point

None of this matters

>> No.11556471

>>11555746
:(

R.I.P.

>> No.11556497

>>11555746
Fuuuck. Love me some CAs, dude was an inspiration dude was an inspiration to me.

>> No.11556505 [DELETED] 

they all get what they deserve. rootless cosmopolitans and filthy third-world vermin have effected this disease, and they shall bear the brunt of it. good riddance.

>> No.11556887

FUCK

>> No.11556890

man fuck this
I'm actually sad to hear it

>> No.11556891

>>11556052
>Game of Life was pretty much something he did on his free time
It was related to the question of Mars Exploration actually.
Which lead to Von Neumann wanting to construct a self replicating automaton, which ended up really complex, Conway and his friends tried to come up with something simpler.
It's somewhere in here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cQUAwhhC8cU&t=4690s

>> No.11556900

Holy shit. RIP. One of the greats.
MODS STICKY THIS

>> No.11556907

>>11555746
can't we just put the right number of dead and alive people around him to switch him back to alive again?

>> No.11556934

overrated

>> No.11556954

Incorrect and sodomypilled

>> No.11556960

>>11555888
so jewish

>> No.11557000

>>11555746
This is bullshit. China NEEDS to be punished for this. If it was a few chinks getting the virus and kicking the bucket, it'd be fine but now we're losing scientists and mathematicians. People who matter.

>> No.11557007

>>11557000
>muh revenge
Brainlet.

>> No.11557020

>>11557007
"h-hey ling ping xing xao pong, i know your diverse and beautiful culture may or may not have led to a global pandemic, but w-we'll power through it together!"

open your eyes you cuck

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11557026

let's not cry over a grumpy neckbeard too much

>> No.11557031

>>11557020
Fuck off, brainlet. If you think revenge is good in any way, you're the biggest simpleton on this board.

>> No.11557045

Old people dying is a good thing.

>> No.11557049

>>11555746
Rest in peace
Mods, please sticky this

>> No.11557050

>>11557045
old politicians dying is a good thing. old scientists and researchers dying is not.

>> No.11557052

>>11557000
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-response.html

>> No.11557062

>>11557050
ever heard of science progressing "one funeral at a time?"

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>>11557062
>old scientists and researchers dying is not.
came here to say this

I feel the meme that post 50yo authorities block scientific revolutions is well true

>> No.11557073

>>11557045
No it isn't. Old people are the pillar of civilization.

>> No.11557093

>>11557000
>China NEEDS to be punished for this.
And the WHO too.

>>11557062
>>11557066
But Conway didn't. When a famous theorem was proven with the help of computers one of the people who had (without a computer) "proven" it previously (the proof was apparently riddled with obvious errors when Conway got to see the preprint, which upset him) he tried to defending the author and even got so far as writing to the publisher, trying to explain to them how the computer based proof was highly rigorous.
Him recounting that story can be found in the YouTube video in >>11556891.


You really can not accuse him of trying to "gatekeep" new methods or hindering mathematics.

>> No.11557105

>>11557093
Was addressing the blanket statement made by>>11557062. Old farts dying is generally good. Ofc in Conway's case it's sad.

>> No.11557127

>>11555746

imagine coming up with complex mathematical theories only to die because some chink ate a bat LMAOOOO

>> No.11557129

"When you play the Game of Life, you win or you die. There is no middle ground."
- John H. Conway

>> No.11557131

>>11557129

somebody should implement a version of game of life where the cells decide to start eating bats and then all the cells start dying suddenly

>> No.11557138

One of the most overrated mathematicians of the 21th century.

>> No.11557211

>>11557129
He for sure never been to edges of reality...

They are like edges of matter, they have layers.

>> No.11557246

>>11557045
Agree, every dead person is an extra point in the dow jones

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>>11557138
lol. Most people are not even familiar with his math and just think he's the life man. Initiates know he published the greatest coffee table book ever.

>> No.11557641

F. i hope it's not real though.

>> No.11557653 [DELETED] 

i did not mean to say "good riddance" earlier. it was only in frustration toward the chinese and their plague.

the wiki article is talking about him in the past tense but it doesn't say anything about him dying.

>> No.11557655

STICKY THIS, YOU COCKSUCKIN' MODS
which books of his have you read, anons? i'm thinking of trying the Sensual Quadratic Form in his honour, and maybe Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays after

>> No.11557713

This is what John Conway wanted to understand before he died.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsSeoGpiWsw

>> No.11557764

>>11557000
trump is responsible for every single american

>> No.11557787

Can we just nuke all chinks?

>> No.11558280

I love John Conway :(

>> No.11558360

>>11558280
gay

>> No.11558446

>>11555746
Looks like Conway lost the Game of Life.

>> No.11558778

>>11558446
>unironically writing down this kindergarden level joke

>> No.11559235

some sad shit right there

>> No.11559298

>>11555746
why the FUCK is there no sticky

>> No.11559304

>>11557031
How is revenge not a good thing in this case? Revenge means deterrence which means a better future.

>> No.11559402

>>11555746
Were the complications that he had fewer than 2 live neighbours?

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>>11555746
The madman finally found a way to lose the game of life!

>> No.11559794

Oh no!

>> No.11559805

good riddance

>> No.11559921

>>11559805
Wow, rude.

>> No.11560084

HAHAHAHA the epic jokes in here am I right gais

>> No.11560090

lol internet

>> No.11560101

>>11557073
No, the family is the pillar of civilization.

>> No.11560119

F; I wonder how many others will be lost.

>> No.11560529

Who?

>> No.11560560

He was conwayed to the other side

>> No.11560616

why would anybody like Conway

>> No.11560632

>>11557050
>old politicians dying is a good thing
Any politicians.

>> No.11561122

RIP

>> No.11561159

>>11560119
>I wonder how many others will be lost.
At least Freeman Dyson said fuck you to the virus and made sure to depart before the pandemic.

>> No.11561252

>>11555746
F

>> No.11561253

>>11555746
whoms'tv'e?

>> No.11561257

>>11561159
w8 dyson is dead?

>> No.11561371

Big F. I haven't seen anything about this on the Beeb as well which is pretty depressing

>> No.11561444

>>11555746
Rest in peace.

>> No.11561487

F, deleting all my corona memes

>> No.11562001

How does /v/ have a sticky for a fucking VA, but /sci/ has no sticky for one of the most based mathematicians of our time?

RIP

>> No.11562208

>>11555746
remember when you faggots were telling me it was just a flu and that i was a schizo for freaking out? fuck you guys

>> No.11562220

A grew up in Princeton and used to see him walking around. Last time I saw him was a few years ago after he gad a stroke. It's not that surprising I guess. I used to orbit around Fine Hall also, his office was pretty cool.

>> No.11562228

>>11562208
yeah, an 82 year old far past his physical and mental prime died, shit is serious now

>> No.11562231

>>11562228
why is /sci/ somehow one of the dumbest boards on here?

>> No.11562237

>>11561257
>Died on Feb 28th from a fall
Truly sad.

>> No.11562243

>>11562231
The modern plague of scientism infects a great deal of people here.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOCe5HUObD4

*sob*

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>>11555746
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kXSETKZ3X9oidMozA/the-level-above-mine

>For so long as I have not yet achieved that level, I must acknowledge the possibility that I can never achieve it, that my native talent is not sufficient. When Marcello Herreshoff had known me for long enough, I asked him if he knew of anyone who struck him as substantially more natively intelligent than myself. Marcello thought for a moment and said "John Conway-I met him at a summer math camp." Darn, I thought, he thought of someone, and worse, it's some ultra-famous old guy I can't grab. I inquired how Marcello had arrived at the judgment. Marcello said, "He just struck me as having a tremendous amount of mental horsepower," and started to explain a math problem he'd had a chance to work on with Conway.

>Not what I wanted to hear.

>Perhaps, relative to Marcello's experience of Conway and his experience of me, I haven't had a chance to show off on any subject that I've mastered as thoroughly as Conway had mastered his many fields of mathematics.

>Or it might be that Conway's brain is specialized off in a different direction from mine, and that I could never approach Conway's level on math, yet Conway wouldn't do so well on AI research.

>Or...

>...or I'm strictly dumber than Conway, dominated by him along all dimensions. Maybe, if I could find a young proto-Conway and tell them the basics, they would blaze right past me, solve the problems that have weighed on me for years, and zip off to places I can't follow.

Is Le Metabolic Privilege Man right about John Conway?

>> No.11563059

f

>> No.11563104

f

>> No.11563126

>>11555746
BASED coronavirus. SSSSS

Eat shit boomer

>> No.11563145

>>11562231
Every board is the opposite.

/tv/ is full of people who don't watch tv or film
/v/ is for people who hate video games
/pol/ is full of sjws
/biz/ is full of people who don't have any money
/sci/ is the brainlet board

>> No.11563440

>>11563145
>/b/ is refuge for high IQ people
I knew it!

>> No.11563445

F

>> No.11563581

More liek John Coronaway rite gais

>> No.11563755

>>11555746
RiP Wolverine.

>> No.11563801

>>11563755
Looks more like Hannibal Lecter to me.

>> No.11565388

FUCK FUCK NO WHY!!!!

>> No.11565418

>>11565388
Because of COVID-19

>> No.11566235

rip
it's just a game of life

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>>11563145
>/sci/ is the brainlet board
>tfw you’ve been in the retard containment board this whole time

>> No.11566281

>>11563145
>/tv/ is full of people who don't watch tv or film
Can personally confirm this is true.

>> No.11566866

Might be a Mandela effect here but anyone remember him dying like three months ago and Numberphile releasing some video they did with him a long time back?

>> No.11567176

>>11555746
Rip in piss

>> No.11567812

Now it's Game of Death.
F

>> No.11568766

>>11563145
Kek this is so accurate

>> No.11568775

>>11563145
Based anon makes astute observations.