Devine Lu LinvegaI love this picture of John Conway
Justin Miller@neauoire “open other end”
rosin@neauoire he looks so content with his Shapes
Tau@neauoire I feel better now about the messiness of my own desk.
rezmason@neauoire That looks like a model built from Zome ( https://www.zometool.com ) and the model at the window is a small rhombicosidodecahedron, one of my favorites!
Look at all the objects hanging from the ceiling! I wish I could make novel shapes for a living
Theodote moved to hachyderm.io@neauoire hoping to become just as cozy as him in the future. god please
sourencho@neauoire the modern version of this would be a browser with lotsa tabs open. Less aesthetic :(
the roamerYeah, such a witty and warmhearted portrait of a warmhearted true mathematician. There are many recorded lectures and interviews with the man around, all worth listening to.
I was about 10 when Conway's Life became widely known, and it got me. I spent days on end filling graph paper with experimental Life evolutions (no computers then, of course). I once tried to understand his On Numbers and Games but failed. His little textbook on Automata is lovely. A great man.