[HN Gopher] Three Mathematicians We Lost in 2020 ___________________________________________________________________ Three Mathematicians We Lost in 2020 Author : _pius Score : 79 points Date : 2021-01-19 19:57 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.newyorker.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.newyorker.com) | xenocratus wrote: | Terence Tao wrote a great obituary for Conway last year: | | https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2020/04/12/john-conway/ | | "Godel's Lost Letter and P=NP" also does obituaries of | mathematicians quite often, and goes more into detail on their | work. | | https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2020/04/14/john-horton-conway... | gmfawcett wrote: | Tao: "Conway was arguably an extreme point in the convex hull | of all mathematicians." What a beautiful and mathy way to | describe him. | 1970-01-01 wrote: | Vaughan Jones, winner of the 1990 Fields Medal, also lost to | 2020. | sexyhexy wrote: | This is the saddest loss of all time | pgtan wrote: | Surprisingly for me, the passing of John D. Barrow went so | unresonated. He has some great books about the idea of the | mathematical universe and his lectures (on YT) are quite | interesting. | jostylr wrote: | His book Pi in the Sky was one of the two most influential math | books for me in my youth; the other was Modern Mathematics by | Edna Kramer. | | I had not heard of his death. Thanks for posting about it. | guruparan18 wrote: | John Conway loss will live in my memory for sometime, just like | loosing John Nash on a car accident. Their contribution to math | will outlive everything else. | solstice wrote: | Wear your seat belts, people... | tombert wrote: | I'm still sad about Conway. He was on my list of people that I | was hoping to meet some day. | neonate wrote: | https://archive.is/vu4op ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-01-19 23:00 UTC)