Mathematician John Conway, of COVID-related causes.
Even if you don’t know his name, you know his legacy [xkcd.com].
iamlost
4:03 am on Apr 14, 2020 (gmt 0)
There is an old saying: the only thing worse than outliving your friends is outliving your children. However, losing ones n-parents and other of life’s titans of influence is depressingly increasingly frequent as I age. Normal state of times progression? Bah humbug.
This past day or two, ever since I read of John Conway’s death, I find myself invoking his Doomsday Algorithm/Rule against each date I encounter.
Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it. —-Lewis Carroll
Jonesy
7:59 pm on Apr 16, 2020 (gmt 0)
It's occurred to me now and then that I know more dead people than live people....
lucy24
10:50 pm on Apr 16, 2020 (gmt 0)
I forget who it was who observed that the more time goes by, the more young people he sees all around him, and the fewer old people; “You’d think it would be the other way around, wouldn’t you”.
