[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Donald Knuth

[David Lees]

 5 days ago the Numberphile podcast did a wonderful tribute to Conway, very
much worth listening to at:
https://www.numberphile.com/podcast/john-conway-tribute  It is a mix of
colleagues telling stories and interviews with him.

David Lees

On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 8:28 PM Carl Lazarus <carllazarus at comcast.net>
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> Today’s NY Times has an obituary for John Horton Conway, a mathematician.
> It mentions his “Game of Life” which many of us may have played on a
> computer in the 1960’s to early 1970’s.  It was a wonderful example of how
> a few very simple rules can result in complex behavior.  See
> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/technology/john-horton-conway-dead-coronavirus.html
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> *Subject:* [Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Donald Knuth
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> Bob Ferrara just sent me this wonderful article about Donald Knuth that
> anyone in Computer Science (or whatever it was called when we did it) has
> read.  He is alive and still working on his opus.  Read this wonderful
> article
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> https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientist-donald-knuth-cant-stop-telling-stories-20200416/
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