John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician | Siobhan Roberts | Science | The Guardian | Educational Pedagogy | Scoop.it
From www.theguardian.com - April 27, 2020 3:13 PM
The long read: John Horton Conway is a cross between Archimedes, Mick Jagger and Salvador Dalí. For many years, he worried that his obsession with playing silly games was ruining his career – until he realised that it could lead to extraordinary discoveries