# RIP John Conway - and a marvellous article on his life
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**Created:** [April 12, 2020, 8:58am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/rip-john-conway-and-a-marvellous-article-on-his-life/37439 "2020-04-12T08:58:38Z")
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### Author:  [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2020, 8:58am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/rip-john-conway-and-a-marvellous-article-on-his-life/37439/1 "2020-04-12T08:58:39Z")
A friend on Twitter passed on the news that John Conway has died.
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This Guardian article is just marvellous.
> **[John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician | Siobhan Roberts](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/23/john-horton-conway-the-most-charismatic-mathematician-in-the-world)**
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> 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...
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### Author:  [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2020, 9:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/rip-john-conway-and-a-marvellous-article-on-his-life/37439/2 "2020-04-12T09:00:06Z")
ps. If anyone here has a tale about meeting this great man or working with him please tell it.