ложь, всё ложь, говорит Конвей
He remembers Conway putting on a good show during a lecture at MIT’s 1000-seat Kresge Auditorium. Fielding questions from the audience afterward, Conway hunted frantically for an unused transparency to illustrate an answer. Failing, he made do by licking a marked-up transparency clean. This display of reckless spontaneity won converts and spawned legends. But, as Berlekamp tells it, the spontaneity was calculated. Someone had spotted Conway practicing licking transparencies clean in advance (lies, all lies, says Conway).
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Конвей всегда рассматривал его как образец для подражания
When Cantor proposed his theory of the infinite he was called a scientific charlatan, a renegade, and a corrupter of youth (Conway has always considered him a role model).
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he made what he calls “The Vow”: “Thou shalt stop worrying and feeling guilty; thou shalt do whatever thou pleasest.”
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Coxeter’s reply, deliriously received and dearly cherished, has since gone the way of many things that really matter to Conway: lost.
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Guy introduced him to Conway at a number theory conference in Oxford in 1969. They played hooky and spent 10 hours at a pub playing games. As Berlekamp recalls, neither of them could ever prevail at a game the other had invented, but each of them always had more games up his own sleeve that only the inventor could win.
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He’s got his high-mathematical-mastery-inaccessible-exoskeleton mode, and to be sure when he’s in that mode he’s hard to reach. He can also come down to earth with treats for mere mortals.
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I do have a big ego! As I often say, modesty is my only vice. If I weren’t so modest, I’d be perfect.
Источник: Siobhan Roberts. Genius At Play. The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway. — Bloomsbury USA, 2015. — ISBN 9781620405932.
Конвей, Джон Хортон: Цитаты на английском языке
[Mark Ronan, Symmetry and the Monster: One of the greatest quests of mathematics, http://books.google.com/books?id=wDjD0PowhIwC&pg=PT163, 18 May 2006, Oxford University Press, UK, 978-0-19-157938-7, 163]
[Life, Death and the Monster - Numberphile, 9 May 2014, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOCe5HUObD4]
