14 Apr
2020
14 Apr
'20
9:07 a.m.
Thanks, Adam! I was hoping this link included a recording of the talk, but it doesn’t seem to… - Cris
On Apr 14, 2020, at 8:19 AM, Adam P. Goucher <apgoucher@gmx.com> wrote:
I only met John Conway once (on 19th November 2015, when he gave a talk at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge on the topic of surreal numbers).
http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/62570 <http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/62570>
I particularly remember his excellent sense of humour: he apologised for pronouncing 'z' as 'zee' [as a result of being in Princeton for the last few decades] and on the second occasion remarked:
"I define 'zee' to be 'zed'"
so that he could continue using the US and UK pronunciations interchangeably.