{"id":105482,"date":"2020-04-16T08:23:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T15:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/mathematician-john-horton-conway-a-magical-genius-known-for-inventing-the-game-of-life-dies-at-age-82"},"modified":"2020-04-16T08:23:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T15:23:54","slug":"mathematician-john-horton-conway-a-magical-genius-known-for-inventing-the-game-of-life-dies-at-age-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/mathematician-john-horton-conway-a-magical-genius-known-for-inventing-the-game-of-life-dies-at-age-82","title":{"rendered":"Mathematician John Horton Conway, a \u2018magical genius\u2019 known for inventing the \u2018Game of Life,\u2019 dies at age 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mathematician-john-horton-conway-a-magical-genius-known-for-inventing-the-game-of-life-dies-at-age-823.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Horton Conway, a legendary mathematician who stood out for his love of games and for bringing mathematics to the masses, died on Saturday, April 11, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, from complications related to COVID-19. He was 82.<\/p>\n<p>Known for his unbounded curiosity and enthusiasm for subjects far beyond mathematics, Conway was a beloved figure in the hallways of Princeton\u2019s mathematics building and at the Small World coffee shop on Nassau Street, where he engaged with students, faculty and mathematical hobbyists with equal interest.<\/p>\n<p>Conway, who joined the faculty in 1987, was the John von Neumann Professor in Applied and Computational Mathematics and a professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.princeton.edu\/\">mathematics<\/a> until 2013 when he transferred to emeritus status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Horton Conway, a legendary mathematician who stood out for his love of games and for bringing mathematics to the masses, died on Saturday, April 11, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, from complications related to COVID-19. He was 82. Known for his unbounded curiosity and enthusiasm for subjects far beyond mathematics, Conway was a beloved [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1509,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-entertainment","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}