Two great mathematicians have died this year. While I planned to write about Richard Guy on another outlet, I found a lot of information about his contribution to the "Game of Life" by John Conway. The famous chess composer also was a great ("amateur", as he insisted) mathematician, and when meeting Conway, he introduced the "glider", making many patterns in the Game of Life possible. Guy was 103 when he died on 9 March 2020.
John Conway, as is well known, was the inventor of such "Game of Life", a grid-based minimalist simulation that has surprisingly broad applications, New discoveries are still made over half a century later, repeating and self-replicating patterns, transmission of information, sometimes with sizes that are just unimaginable, are still subject to great research. At the age of 82, the great inventor has died from the China Virus on 11 April 2020.
Wikipedia links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_K._Guy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway
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