{"id":6165,"date":"2020-04-16T12:57:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T17:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/?p=6165"},"modified":"2020-04-16T21:08:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T02:08:21","slug":"john-horton-conway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/2020\/04\/16\/john-horton-conway\/","title":{"rendered":"John  Horton Conway"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"content\"><h3>John Horton Conway<\/h3><p>From the <i>New York Times<\/i>, April 15, 2020<\/p><p><b><i>John Horton Conway, a &#8216;Magical Genius&#8217; in Math, Dies at 82<\/i><\/b><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/15\/technology\/john-horton-conway-dead-coronavirus.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/15\/technology\/john-horton-conway-dead-coronavirus.html<\/a><\/p><pre>C = ['  +++  '\r\n     '  + +  '\r\n     '  + +  '\r\n     '   +   '\r\n     '+ +++  '\r\n     ' + + + '\r\n     '   +  +'\r\n     '  + +  '\r\n     '  + +  '];<\/pre><pre>S = sparse(C == '+');\r\nlife_gif(S)<\/pre><p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/files\/conway_2.gif\" alt=\"\"> <\/p><script language=\"JavaScript\"> <!-- \r\n    function grabCode_1c8c5b859f67411aa37f1ef60ead0e96() {\r\n        \/\/ Remember the title so we can use it in the new page\r\n        title = document.title;\r\n\r\n        \/\/ Break up these strings so that their presence\r\n        \/\/ in the Javascript doesn't mess up the search for\r\n        \/\/ the MATLAB code.\r\n        t1='1c8c5b859f67411aa37f1ef60ead0e96 ' + '##### ' + 'SOURCE BEGIN' + ' #####';\r\n        t2='##### ' + 'SOURCE END' + ' #####' + ' 1c8c5b859f67411aa37f1ef60ead0e96';\r\n    \r\n        b=document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];\r\n        i1=b.innerHTML.indexOf(t1)+t1.length;\r\n        i2=b.innerHTML.indexOf(t2);\r\n \r\n        code_string = b.innerHTML.substring(i1, i2);\r\n        code_string = code_string.replace(\/REPLACE_WITH_DASH_DASH\/g,'--');\r\n\r\n        \/\/ Use \/x3C\/g instead of the less-than character to avoid errors \r\n        \/\/ in the XML parser.\r\n        \/\/ Use '\\x26#60;' instead of '<' so that the XML parser\r\n        \/\/ doesn't go ahead and substitute the less-than character. \r\n        code_string = code_string.replace(\/\\x3C\/g, '\\x26#60;');\r\n\r\n        copyright = 'Copyright 2020 The MathWorks, Inc.';\r\n\r\n        w = window.open();\r\n        d = w.document;\r\n        d.write('<pre>\\n');\r\n        d.write(code_string);\r\n\r\n        \/\/ Add copyright line at the bottom if specified.\r\n        if (copyright.length > 0) {\r\n            d.writeln('');\r\n            d.writeln('%%');\r\n            if (copyright.length > 0) {\r\n                d.writeln('% _' + copyright + '_');\r\n            }\r\n        }\r\n\r\n        d.write('<\/pre>\\n');\r\n\r\n        d.title = title + ' (MATLAB code)';\r\n        d.close();\r\n    }   \r\n     --> <\/script><p style=\"text-align: right; 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