We have some incredibly sad news today, with the announcement that the legendary mathematician John Horton Conway has died from COVID-19. He may not be as famous outside of academia as some, but his silly little recreational games have resulted in some of the most interesting fields of mathematical research.

His work is too extensive to review everything, but I would like to briefly cover a few of his more interesting games. (For those who don't know Conway's work, a lot of his mathematical r...
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