Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
John Horton Conway
Born: December 26, 1937
Died: April 11, 2020 (aged 82)
Bio: John Horton Conway was an English mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory.
Known for:
- On Numbers and Games (1976)
- The book of numbers (1996)
- ATLAS of Finite Groups (1998)
- Sphere packings, lattices, and groups (1988)
- On Quaternions and Octonions (2003)