The strange story of how a man who Bertrand Russell and the Bloomsbury Group looked on as a god ended up almost completely forgotten

John Horton Conway has died. Sigh. One of the most unique mathematicians and human beings who ever lived. Five years ago he was game for this April Fool's prank blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/joh…

In another verification of the validity of Einstein's theory of general relativity, published in Nature Photonics, scientists from the RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics and Cluster for Pioneering Research, ...

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Intermodal is a new command-line BitTorrent metainfo utility for Linux, Windows, and macOS.

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A catalogue of software constructs, languages, or APIs which are unexpectedly Turing-complete; implications for security and reliability.

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The decentralized web is here. It’s growing fast and is easier than ever to use.

Lecture 1 | Free Will Lecture Series | Meet John Conway; hear about Simon Kochen and how the theorem came about. Thoughts on senility. Free will and determinism in science and philosophy over the last two millennia; the implications of Newtonian and quantum…

The mathematician John Horton Conway’s myriad accomplishments — including the Game of Life, sprouts and the surreal numbers — are the product of a mind at play.